All in all it is good stuff... with some issues here and there. It is basically consumer *nix, and I have been able to do a lot of geekie work with it.
I think the UI still has issues. OS X's 2D display system is very different and currently lacks hardware acceleration. This is veeeeery annoying. the CPU can process a lot of this stuff just fine, but drawing big windows is kind of intense.
I think OS X is one hell of a major step forward for a consumer OS. When looked at next to XP, XP seems to be a bit more "complete" to me, but I think X has a lot more potential (at least for the geek and graphics sectors of the world).
Come on... we're talking about Gandolf here. This movie is a hell of a lot more mature. I hope it wamps on Harry Potter. However parents may not want to take young kids to it... that is a lot of money right there.
if anything this movie will have a longer shelf life to it in the video store. Probably be an instant cult classic.
If I wanted to I could very well script the whole 200 CD task via Apple script on my desktop or something. However I can not think of a way in which I would be able to sync up home stereo equiptment to my computer at more the 1x.
If I could get the thing to cook at a faster speed I could totally run a batch to convert 1x+ audio data in to normal, non-chipmunk, audio.
200 CDs would take about a week to rip at x1. 200 CDs imported from a single 32 or 40 speed burner could be done in 3 to 5 hours.
I'd just convert a few here, and convert a few there. When you sit down to work do a hand full of them...you'll be done in no time.
I have two optical drives, so I did a lot of dual importing when I did this at home. I did over a hundred CDs in a weekend. Just did a bit at a time.
Ehh... I disagree. The n64 seemed to kind of dominate my collage campus for a few years. Everyone bought a playstation at first, but then games like Golden Eye, 1080 SnowBoarding, and Zelda game out... so everyone ran out to buy a 64. he only thing I found my Ps 1 good for (after Resident Evil) was Tony Hawk (which later came out on the 64 and looked 10 times better).
For some reason Nintendo has been getting a bad wrap because of Miyamoto's games. People think they are kiddy games or something. However, Miyamoto makes the coolest stuff. Miyamoto's the reaons I bought a cube. Games like Mario Cart, Super Smash Bros, and even Pokemon on the game boy were actually very very good games.... I advise playing them.
This would rule for ski trips and talegate parties
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Dude, for long ski and snowboard trips,as well as tailgate parties, this would be the bomb. Playing games on my laptop is always fun, but cube would allow me to not look like a major geek...just a minor one;).
That artical at Tom's was some fairly lame reading. They didn't really talk about why certain consoles did well and why others failed. ie the PS1's cheep'o API, Nintendo's rights to Miyamoto's brain, etc.
Moreover, I was also kind of let down by the fact that Tom's Hardware had practically no info on the GameCube's hardware, and no info on the different architectures of the xbox, ps2, and cube. That info does exist in the world.
Just seems like a bunch of geeks trying to justify their xbox purchases. Was it just me, or did I see no mention of the disadvantages of the xboxes desktop-pc hardware design and the x-boxes lack of classic game titles? This is just my opinion, but I would much rather have a ps2 or cube simply because of the games. These systems have a lot more titles that look interesting to me.... titles that I have known to kick butt in the past.
And as for the cube-kiddy comment. Well, IGN seems to have a whole array of up coming blood-filled cube games. So that kiddy argument does seem to hold much ground.
Apple has been doing a lot durring the past few months. However most of Apple's work has been focused on OS X. Apple had a lot of work to do...and still as a lo of work to do with that OS. Not only must they tweek the OS itself, but they have to help every third party software company in the world.
Apple's also been working on portables a lot durring the past few months. Apple's portable computers are quite sick right now.
As for desktop hardware, well I'm fairly sure Apple has been waiting for LCD prices to drop and for the G5 to go into production. Apple likes big drastic upgrades;). We will probably see both of theseat mac world in Jan.
I'd rather not support RIAA garbage in general. I'm sick of these sad sack stories about "the poor artists." Once the RIAA decides to start promoting music that is not crap-tastical I will open my wallet. However as long as boy bands, and superficial teen punk bands dominate the air waves (singing songs about girl friends had, lost or desired...gag) I will not open my GD wallet. No way in hell.
I'd rather give my money to astralwerks, ninja tune, or any other label that is not tied to the the big 5 and is promoting REAL music, or at least catchy crap pop with lyrics that f'n mean something. Shess... I'm not asking for much.
The RIAA is going to need to learn how to change how they do business. The RIAA is about as sociological as my left butt cheek... and it makes me sick. If big 5 lables would stop looking at current profits, they could create a new model to assure future profits without pissing people off. However, it's apparently a sin to tell shareholders that earnings are going to be a bit down this year due to a directional shift.
Shess...don't you just love how big $$$ holds back progress. I'm surprised we all still don't have 8 tracks.
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New technology man. This thing is not going to be marketed to the 3rd world for sure...at least not anytime soon. The price will drop in time. Hell, look at computers.
Granted, this is another device to make americans fatty and lazier:)... I liked that comment;). However considering that both you and I are sitting in front ot the biggest advocate for sitting on our asses, Mr. Computer, i'm not going to complain about the scooter.
Simply put, I find the fact that you can't really fall at zero mph, with your feet on it, kind of cool. Moreover, this would be a great solution to the cars vs. bikes problem that we have here in SF. Critical Mass sucks...and there is not enough room do really do anything about it. These things are quick and the manuver a loooot better then a bike. Cool stuff.
Perhaps someone will create a stairmaster to click on to this thing. That way americans could power the scooter and work out all while being very very ironic at the same time:).
Re:This is the sneaker of small vehicals...chill.
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Ya, but what makes this hing different is that it is possible to travel a.001 mile an hour on the sidewalk while not falling down. Unlike a large bike, you have no need to keep a certain speed at all. If you're fly'n down the sidewalk...your an ass;).
But ya, 65 pounds is kind of big. I could lift the thing just fine, but not my mom.
If this this was to get adopted people would have to create 1st story storage or big locks for it.
As for the 17miles. Well the site says you'll probably really get around 10miles once you start going up hills and carrying cargo. Still not bad if you ask me. For city traffic 10 miles fairly far. Moreover, if people start creating docking stations with power and locks this could turn out to be quite neet.
I hate to be the Mac geek around here... but whatever.
Motorola tends to remain very vague about new PPC products to the public. They wait until they are actually in other vendors devices before the start to really talk about them. Motorola does this so other companies, like anal Apple, can have first dibs on telling the public about the new toys they are going to ship.
If you hunt you actually can find interesting info on the G5. Variations of the "g5" have already begun to ship within certain routers, and as usual, a lot of Apple's hardware beta testers have been breaking their NDA and telling sites like The Register and MOSR what's in the beige test boxes.
Who know s what this thing will really be like. But we know for sure now that it is 64/32bit,.13micron, uses moto's new SOI technology that came out a while ago, and was developed with a lot of "help" from Apple this time.
Ya, this is very little info, but I do believe that this this is going to be quite sick. Obviously the G4 was a dud. It happens...hell, it did happen. Moto had an awful time trying to get the stupid CPU off the damn die, the thing didn't scale for beens, and it was seemingly aimed at bumping heads wit the last generation of CPUs. However now Apple has stepped in, the CPU seems to work well if you believe the rumors, moto seems to have a lot of buyers and potential buyers, they can actually produce and scale this next gen chip (thank god), yada yada yada. Moto and Apple have stepped back and collected their thoughts for a looooong time now. Apple/Moto practically skipped a generation (or half generation) of CPUs and motherboards. It makes sense that they would just come out with a product that is going to bump heads with hammer and itanium. They have had more development time since it didn't make sense to try and save the G4.
Youch, thhhhhat's why the "preview" button is there huh? Ehh it's 4am.
This is the sneaker of small vehicals...chill.
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I honestly see no need to reason to argue over the definition of terms such as pedestrian or innovation. Why must arrogant geeks always resort to this sort of stuff. Ehh. As if I don't work with enough of these guys.
Personally, I laughed when I read this reply. I don't mean to be an ass or anything, but calling people "arrogant" for not giving a 'what what' to bikes and scooters is kind of...well... ya know...dumb. Moreover, when this guy was talking about pedestrians he was using the term fairly loosely.
Considering that these things are capable of moving with no human balance, takes up practically zero space while being driven, can go very very slow (hold still at zero mph), and go in doors safely (unlike bikes, skooters, skates, skateboards, etc.), and use practically nothing for energy.... I think that's a fairly big innovation. And hell, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this innovation is probably about as big an innovation as the sneaker. This thing is to small vehicles what the sneaker was to the old wooden shoes that flatfoots had to wear back when they were trying to snag jack the ripper.
When the sneeker came along it was like "holy *hit, this is what shoes should really do." Now this little device has come out and taken just about everything bad out of small vehicle should do in an urban environment. If this thing could charge itself it would be perfect.
Perhaps it is because I live in SanFran... but this thing looks freek'n dope to me. Bikes are too big, clumsy (cars want to kill you, and suck up hills); skates/roller blades are a pain in the butt to get on and off, they make you look dumb, and they suck both up and down hills; razor scooters ust plain suck all over the place, motor scooters (vespas and whatnot) require gas and a place to park them, yada yada yada. And these are only some of the down falls.
The only problems I see with this thing are a big price tag, perhaps weight (how heavy it this? I think it might be light, it is made out of AI) , and a need for a charge at the days end. Not to bad if you ask me. I want one. Sign me up. Need to pay off the Althon MP and the TiBook first;)
Looking at the picture made me laugh at first, but then it made me wonder. Am I the only one that finds a million geeks, stairing at glowing monitors, while bairly moving, kind of odd. It's like the matrix or something.
Here in SF (at toys R us) they finished off a shippment of cubes that was larger then a shippent of xboxes in only 2 hours. The xboxes took about 6 hours to go.
Most of the people in the store were solo 20year old dudes, or parents with knifes that needed to kill for a Nintendo this christmas.
Man, you're missing out. I know it's a PS2 title too, but Tony Hawk 3 is freek'n video-crack... to say the least.
And, well, we'll see what happens once Zelda, Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros, and all of those exclusive (and visualy stunning) new Resident Evil games come out.
If you ask me, the best looking cube games are still a few weeks away....which is unfortunate, they would've really been great to have from the get-go.
The PS1 became popular because it had a simple API set that was easy to develop for. The games looked like garbage, but there were a lot of them, and they could be copied if you had 20 bucks for a mod chip.
The PS2 is a lot harder to develop for, however I guess developers have figured out the guts and made well needed tools by now.
The only thing that is really selling the PS2 again is games. It can play the old ugly PS1 games and I got a jump start in the next-gen market. Developers have phisically had muuuch more time with the PS2 on the market.
However, Game Development for the xbox and Cube should be fairly rapid. Developers already have tools for Direct X 8 and Open GL games, and many developers are also use to the Nvidia / Intel hardware and the IBM/ATi Hardware. Nintendo claims that delopers are going to be able to port games to the cube quite quickly....I belive that. If anything, xbox games will be fast ports. From what I hear the move from Direct X 8.x to openGL is not that hard to make now that Direct X has matured.
Unfortunatly, Sony scrapped the one thing that made the PS1 so popular. Now they are just riding on a brand name, the heat of an old console, and the obviouse advantage of a jump start in the next gen market.
Don't get me wrong, the PS2 is going to sell well, but Sony is kind of screwing their future if you ask me. Ine about 3 months there is going to be a ton of xbox and cube titles.... things are going to get intese. When Super Smash Brothers, Zelda, and Metroid Prime come out we are going to see a jump in Cube sales for sure....trust me.
Although, it's not really important. Cubes did sell better at the Toys R Us in my town. A woman behind the couter told be that all the xboxes were gone in about 6 hours, yet the Cubes were going to be finished off in less then 2.......moreover, they had a larger shipment of Cubes.
Ya, I'm quite a fan of Rogue Leader. It's kind of hard towards the end...but you learn how to take the levels and there is a million things you can unlock. Fighting off rebels on the Death Star as vader is an awesome level to unlock;). It is one of the better in flight shooters I've played. I love it...great game:).
Apps like WindowShade X will allow one to drop the opacity of windows in the OS X. It's quite cool to have an MP3 player rendering visuals at 30 percent opacity behind BBEdit or something;).
I'm fairly sure WindowShade X beat Glass 2k to the consumer opacity punch...but who really cares.
Unfortunatly, the whole GUI in OS X is not hardware acellerated due to the fact that it is vector based. No current video cards support this... but they are going to have to eventually. PostScript is the obvisouse evolution of the 2d GUI.
However, transparent windows still seem to work at a very respectable speed as long as they are not huuuuge with lots of animation. It's quite impressive actually... considering the graphics card does nothing really;).
And yes zephc, PowerWindows has been doing this kind of neet'o stuff for a million and 5 years. However it tends to be quite slow on older machines. But then again, the old OS 9 GUI was not designed for stuff like this. No one at apple cared to dump window buffering into the damn OS;).
Seriously, we've ALL seen Episode 4,5, and 6. We know that Anakin is going to hook up with the queen, we know he's going to get pissed at ObiWan, we know they're going to have kids (one of which Anakin doesn't know about), we know ObiWan and Anakin are going to fight in the clone wars, and we know Anakin is going to get jacked in the clone wars.
shess... who doesn't know what is going to happen? We've seen the begining and the end of the story... we're not morons...right?
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All in all it is good stuff... with some issues here and there. It is basically consumer *nix, and I have been able to do a lot of geekie work with it.
I think the UI still has issues. OS X's 2D display system is very different and currently lacks hardware acceleration. This is veeeeery annoying. the CPU can process a lot of this stuff just fine, but drawing big windows is kind of intense.
I think OS X is one hell of a major step forward for a consumer OS. When looked at next to XP, XP seems to be a bit more "complete" to me, but I think X has a lot more potential (at least for the geek and graphics sectors of the world).
Come on... we're talking about Gandolf here. This movie is a hell of a lot more mature. I hope it wamps on Harry Potter. However parents may not want to take young kids to it... that is a lot of money right there.
if anything this movie will have a longer shelf life to it in the video store. Probably be an instant cult classic.
I'm sorry, but Kraft's processed-cheese-food singles should be on that food website. Perhaps along with Wonder Bread, and Taco Bell Taco Lunchables.
If I wanted to I could very well script the whole 200 CD task via Apple script on my desktop or something. However I can not think of a way in which I would be able to sync up home stereo equiptment to my computer at more the 1x.
If I could get the thing to cook at a faster speed I could totally run a batch to convert 1x+ audio data in to normal, non-chipmunk, audio.
200 CDs would take about a week to rip at x1. 200 CDs imported from a single 32 or 40 speed burner could be done in 3 to 5 hours.
I'd just convert a few here, and convert a few there. When you sit down to work do a hand full of them...you'll be done in no time.
I have two optical drives, so I did a lot of dual importing when I did this at home. I did over a hundred CDs in a weekend. Just did a bit at a time.
Ehh... I disagree. The n64 seemed to kind of dominate my collage campus for a few years. Everyone bought a playstation at first, but then games like Golden Eye, 1080 SnowBoarding, and Zelda game out... so everyone ran out to buy a 64. he only thing I found my Ps 1 good for (after Resident Evil) was Tony Hawk (which later came out on the 64 and looked 10 times better).
For some reason Nintendo has been getting a bad wrap because of Miyamoto's games. People think they are kiddy games or something. However, Miyamoto makes the coolest stuff. Miyamoto's the reaons I bought a cube. Games like Mario Cart, Super Smash Bros, and even Pokemon on the game boy were actually very very good games.... I advise playing them.
Dude, for long ski and snowboard trips,as well as tailgate parties, this would be the bomb. Playing games on my laptop is always fun, but cube would allow me to not look like a major geek...just a minor one ;).
That artical at Tom's was some fairly lame reading. They didn't really talk about why certain consoles did well and why others failed. ie the PS1's cheep'o API, Nintendo's rights to Miyamoto's brain, etc.
Moreover, I was also kind of let down by the fact that Tom's Hardware had practically no info on the GameCube's hardware, and no info on the different architectures of the xbox, ps2, and cube. That info does exist in the world.
Just seems like a bunch of geeks trying to justify their xbox purchases. Was it just me, or did I see no mention of the disadvantages of the xboxes desktop-pc hardware design and the x-boxes lack of classic game titles? This is just my opinion, but I would much rather have a ps2 or cube simply because of the games. These systems have a lot more titles that look interesting to me.... titles that I have known to kick butt in the past.
And as for the cube-kiddy comment. Well, IGN seems to have a whole array of up coming blood-filled cube games. So that kiddy argument does seem to hold much ground.
here comes the token mac geek gain ;)
;). We will probably see both of theseat mac world in Jan.
Apple has been doing a lot durring the past few months. However most of Apple's work has been focused on OS X. Apple had a lot of work to do...and still as a lo of work to do with that OS. Not only must they tweek the OS itself, but they have to help every third party software company in the world.
Apple's also been working on portables a lot durring the past few months. Apple's portable computers are quite sick right now.
As for desktop hardware, well I'm fairly sure Apple has been waiting for LCD prices to drop and for the G5 to go into production. Apple likes big drastic upgrades
I'd rather not support RIAA garbage in general. I'm sick of these sad sack stories about "the poor artists." Once the RIAA decides to start promoting music that is not crap-tastical I will open my wallet. However as long as boy bands, and superficial teen punk bands dominate the air waves (singing songs about girl friends had, lost or desired...gag) I will not open my GD wallet. No way in hell.
I'd rather give my money to astralwerks, ninja tune, or any other label that is not tied to the the big 5 and is promoting REAL music, or at least catchy crap pop with lyrics that f'n mean something. Shess... I'm not asking for much.
The RIAA is going to need to learn how to change how they do business. The RIAA is about as sociological as my left butt cheek... and it makes me sick. If big 5 lables would stop looking at current profits, they could create a new model to assure future profits without pissing people off. However, it's apparently a sin to tell shareholders that earnings are going to be a bit down this year due to a directional shift.
Shess...don't you just love how big $$$ holds back progress. I'm surprised we all still don't have 8 tracks.
New technology man. This thing is not going to be marketed to the 3rd world for sure...at least not anytime soon. The price will drop in time. Hell, look at computers.
:)... I liked that comment ;). However considering that both you and I are sitting in front ot the biggest advocate for sitting on our asses, Mr. Computer, i'm not going to complain about the scooter.
:).
Granted, this is another device to make americans fatty and lazier
Simply put, I find the fact that you can't really fall at zero mph, with your feet on it, kind of cool. Moreover, this would be a great solution to the cars vs. bikes problem that we have here in SF. Critical Mass sucks...and there is not enough room do really do anything about it. These things are quick and the manuver a loooot better then a bike. Cool stuff.
Perhaps someone will create a stairmaster to click on to this thing. That way americans could power the scooter and work out all while being very very ironic at the same time
Ya, but what makes this hing different is that it is possible to travel a .001 mile an hour on the sidewalk while not falling down. Unlike a large bike, you have no need to keep a certain speed at all. If you're fly'n down the sidewalk...your an ass ;).
But ya, 65 pounds is kind of big. I could lift the thing just fine, but not my mom.
If this this was to get adopted people would have to create 1st story storage or big locks for it.
As for the 17miles. Well the site says you'll probably really get around 10miles once you start going up hills and carrying cargo. Still not bad if you ask me. For city traffic 10 miles fairly far. Moreover, if people start creating docking stations with power and locks this could turn out to be quite neet.
I hate to be the Mac geek around here... but whatever.
.13micron, uses moto's new SOI technology that came out a while ago, and was developed with a lot of "help" from Apple this time.
;)
Motorola tends to remain very vague about new PPC products to the public. They wait until they are actually in other vendors devices before the start to really talk about them. Motorola does this so other companies, like anal Apple, can have first dibs on telling the public about the new toys they are going to ship.
If you hunt you actually can find interesting info on the G5. Variations of the "g5" have already begun to ship within certain routers, and as usual, a lot of Apple's hardware beta testers have been breaking their NDA and telling sites like The Register and MOSR what's in the beige test boxes.
Who know s what this thing will really be like. But we know for sure now that it is 64/32bit,
Ya, this is very little info, but I do believe that this this is going to be quite sick. Obviously the G4 was a dud. It happens...hell, it did happen. Moto had an awful time trying to get the stupid CPU off the damn die, the thing didn't scale for beens, and it was seemingly aimed at bumping heads wit the last generation of CPUs. However now Apple has stepped in, the CPU seems to work well if you believe the rumors, moto seems to have a lot of buyers and potential buyers, they can actually produce and scale this next gen chip (thank god), yada yada yada. Moto and Apple have stepped back and collected their thoughts for a looooong time now. Apple/Moto practically skipped a generation (or half generation) of CPUs and motherboards. It makes sense that they would just come out with a product that is going to bump heads with hammer and itanium. They have had more development time since it didn't make sense to try and save the G4.
god that was a big mac geek post...sorry
Youch, thhhhhat's why the "preview" button is there huh? Ehh it's 4am.
I honestly see no need to reason to argue over the definition of terms such as pedestrian or innovation. Why must arrogant geeks always resort to this sort of stuff. Ehh. As if I don't work with enough of these guys.
...well... ya know...dumb. Moreover, when this guy was talking about pedestrians he was using the term fairly loosely.
/roller blades are a pain in the butt to get on and off, they make you look dumb, and they suck both up and down hills; razor scooters ust plain suck all over the place, motor scooters (vespas and whatnot) require gas and a place to park them, yada yada yada. And these are only some of the down falls.
;)
Personally, I laughed when I read this reply. I don't mean to be an ass or anything, but calling people "arrogant" for not giving a 'what what' to bikes and scooters is kind of
Considering that these things are capable of moving with no human balance, takes up practically zero space while being driven, can go very very slow (hold still at zero mph), and go in doors safely (unlike bikes, skooters, skates, skateboards, etc.), and use practically nothing for energy.... I think that's a fairly big innovation. And hell, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this innovation is probably about as big an innovation as the sneaker. This thing is to small vehicles what the sneaker was to the old wooden shoes that flatfoots had to wear back when they were trying to snag jack the ripper.
When the sneeker came along it was like "holy *hit, this is what shoes should really do." Now this little device has come out and taken just about everything bad out of small vehicle should do in an urban environment. If this thing could charge itself it would be perfect.
Perhaps it is because I live in SanFran... but this thing looks freek'n dope to me. Bikes are too big, clumsy (cars want to kill you, and suck up hills); skates
The only problems I see with this thing are a big price tag, perhaps weight (how heavy it this? I think it might be light, it is made out of AI) , and a need for a charge at the days end. Not to bad if you ask me. I want one. Sign me up. Need to pay off the Althon MP and the TiBook first
Looking at the picture made me laugh at first, but then it made me wonder. Am I the only one that finds a million geeks, stairing at glowing monitors, while bairly moving, kind of odd. It's like the matrix or something.
God money sucks.
Here in SF (at toys R us) they finished off a shippment of cubes that was larger then a shippent of xboxes in only 2 hours. The xboxes took about 6 hours to go.
Most of the people in the store were solo 20year old dudes, or parents with knifes that needed to kill for a Nintendo this christmas.
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Man, you're missing out. I know it's a PS2 title too, but Tony Hawk 3 is freek'n video-crack... to say the least.
And, well, we'll see what happens once Zelda, Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros, and all of those exclusive (and visualy stunning) new Resident Evil games come out.
If you ask me, the best looking cube games are still a few weeks away....which is unfortunate, they would've really been great to have from the get-go.
The PS1 became popular because it had a simple API set that was easy to develop for. The games looked like garbage, but there were a lot of them, and they could be copied if you had 20 bucks for a mod chip.
/ATi Hardware. Nintendo claims that delopers are going to be able to port games to the cube quite quickly....I belive that. If anything, xbox games will be fast ports. From what I hear the move from Direct X 8.x to openGL is not that hard to make now that Direct X has matured.
The PS2 is a lot harder to develop for, however I guess developers have figured out the guts and made well needed tools by now.
The only thing that is really selling the PS2 again is games. It can play the old ugly PS1 games and I got a jump start in the next-gen market. Developers have phisically had muuuch more time with the PS2 on the market.
However, Game Development for the xbox and Cube should be fairly rapid. Developers already have tools for Direct X 8 and Open GL games, and many developers are also use to the Nvidia / Intel hardware and the IBM
Unfortunatly, Sony scrapped the one thing that made the PS1 so popular. Now they are just riding on a brand name, the heat of an old console, and the obviouse advantage of a jump start in the next gen market.
Don't get me wrong, the PS2 is going to sell well, but Sony is kind of screwing their future if you ask me. Ine about 3 months there is going to be a ton of xbox and cube titles.... things are going to get intese. When Super Smash Brothers, Zelda, and Metroid Prime come out we are going to see a jump in Cube sales for sure....trust me.
Although, it's not really important. Cubes did sell better at the Toys R Us in my town. A woman behind the couter told be that all the xboxes were gone in about 6 hours, yet the Cubes were going to be finished off in less then 2.......moreover, they had a larger shipment of Cubes.
Ya, I'm quite a fan of Rogue Leader. It's kind of hard towards the end...but you learn how to take the levels and there is a million things you can unlock. Fighting off rebels on the Death Star as vader is an awesome level to unlock ;). It is one of the better in flight shooters I've played. I love it ...great game :).
Apps like WindowShade X will allow one to drop the opacity of windows in the OS X. It's quite cool to have an MP3 player rendering visuals at 30 percent opacity behind BBEdit or something ;).
;).
;).
I'm fairly sure WindowShade X beat Glass 2k to the consumer opacity punch...but who really cares.
Unfortunatly, the whole GUI in OS X is not hardware acellerated due to the fact that it is vector based. No current video cards support this... but they are going to have to eventually. PostScript is the obvisouse evolution of the 2d GUI.
However, transparent windows still seem to work at a very respectable speed as long as they are not huuuuge with lots of animation. It's quite impressive actually... considering the graphics card does nothing really
And yes zephc, PowerWindows has been doing this kind of neet'o stuff for a million and 5 years. However it tends to be quite slow on older machines. But then again, the old OS 9 GUI was not designed for stuff like this. No one at apple cared to dump window buffering into the damn OS
Seriously, we've ALL seen Episode 4,5, and 6. We know that Anakin is going to hook up with the queen, we know he's going to get pissed at ObiWan, we know they're going to have kids (one of which Anakin doesn't know about), we know ObiWan and Anakin are going to fight in the clone wars, and we know Anakin is going to get jacked in the clone wars.
shess... who doesn't know what is going to happen? We've seen the begining and the end of the story... we're not morons...right?
Perhaps it was Ace Ventura ...pet detective ;)