The Aliens Doom TC will be forever, in my mind, the mod that all other mods aspire to. Few games or movies scared the bejeezus out of me like the Aliens TC. For the time, it was the most realistic, immersive experience I'd ever had. After the first playthrough it wasn't nearly as good, as you knew what was going to happen, but that firs time through was something to be remembered.
I've got the exact opposite experience with Mozilla versus Omniweb. On my G3/500 iBook with 384MB RAM, Mozilla is almost glacial, whereas OmniWeb is quite fast. However, Omniweb doesn't have nearly as many configuration options as Mozilla does (like the dissalowing pop-unders and the like) so I still use Mozilla as my main browser. I really wish I could be using OmniWeb or Chimera, 'cause they're both much much faster on my machine, but they just don't offer what I need.
That's a nice way to get modded up, but probably not so accurate. Try: Our society--particularly our highschool society--accords outgoing and friendly people (who tend to move toward social activities like sports and dating) limitless respect, and people with tremendous egos because they unlocked the secrets of programming instead of flirting almost none.
Try using a finer brush there, buddy. All high school-age social outcast geeks are not egomaniac tech prima donnas. Outgoing and friendly? Is this the same country we're living in? Outgoing and friendly people don't berate and ostracise people who are nerdy techno geeks just because they're socially inept.
Don't forget those with tremendous egos because they're spending their time on the football field or flirting in the halls and at parties instead of maybe picking up a book once in a while. These are the people that our society expects to go to the NFL and get multi-million dollar contracts and get TV sponsorships. These are the people who are shepherded through their college classes, with their professors threatened with being fired if they don't pass the star player who happens to be either brain dead, or to self-important to be bothered to write his own English 101 paper. These are the people that commit crimes that get other people thrown in jail, but have it covered up or recieve wrist-spalling punishments because the greedy bastards who run this country want their almamater to kick State's ass next week, and they can't do it without the "problem case" star player. Some people will do anything to be with/sleep with you. People will give you free stuff just because you're on hte team. Your name in lights. And it doesn't make a good god damn whether you're a complete egomaniac asshole. No one will care, and in fact would be surprised if you weren't.
Whereas your local egotistical tech geek would probably make around 100k a year to be worked like a slave in a corporate IT department for 60+ hours/week. If management could be rid of you and your inceassant droning about how this or that needs to be fixed and that we need this or that new thing, which costs money the company doesn't have, they'd do it in a heartbeat, but you're the only one that knows this or that system that's in place at your place of employment. Everyone and their brother in the company either does their best to avoid you, or is looking for any excuse to kick your ass to the curb because you're such a dickweed to everyone.
Which do you think is more valued in this society? Friendliness and an outgoing nature merely makes someone who's more interested in fsck-ing than fucking acceptable in polite society. For the athletic and beautiful among us, it's strictly optional.
You obviously haven't been paying attention to recent gaming history, have you?
"near-flat-shaded cartoonish games" made the PSOne the most popular console ever. The crappy PSX chewed up and swallowed the Dreamcast (which when in the right hands can push pixels at least as well as the launch PS2 games did) and would've done so to the N64 if the Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon franchises hadn't kept it hanging on for dear life. Both of those systems have _far_ superior graphics, and both fell before the PSX.
Even games don't make the console. The Dreamcast had at least twice the number of games released in the US in its 1.5 year run before the death announcement than the N64 had when it was released in 1996. It's got some of the best games I've ever played. Skies, of Arcadia, Armada, Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, the playable Jedi Power Battles, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2. More and more DC games get ported and sequeled on other systems all the time. Yet somehow it didn't survive.
Image makes or breaks systems. Image killed the Dreamcast because of the "power" of a system that wasn't even out for more than a year after the DC's release. Image is what's giving Microsoft's Xbox some serious problems, because alot people just despise Microsoft, and while they may feel that they can't get away from them on the PC, they can sure as hell not give them any more money.
There's one or two Xbox titles I'd want to play. Ones that would normally get me to buy the system, but I'm not doing it because it's Microsoft, and I'm trying to take a stand. No it won't bring them down. Sony and Nintento aren't wonderful by any means, I have no illusions about this. It's just where I feel can have the most impact on preventing Microsoft from extending their defacto monopoly. And from what I can see it's working pretty well.
The day Microsoft announces that the Xbox is dead, I'll buy a used one and some games, but not before then.
Well, that wouldn't really be counteracting gravity. No more than putting something in a box is countering gravity. You're manipulating the environment (in this case, space time) so it keeps whatever where you want it.
I'm not sure how much Compaq will "suitize" HP. There is a good chance that Compaq will, in the end, be the one who takes over Hewlett Packard, not the other way around. There are alot of strong wills in the Compaq organization, not the least of which are the ex-Digital people. (The general opinion of about a year ago, when I was working in Compaq for a consultancy was that while Compaq had forked out the money, it was Digital that took over the company...a whole lot of dirty politics and strong wills battling in there) It wouldn't surprise me if Compaq reshapes HP more than the other way around, but there aren't that many actual suits running around in Compaq's Houston offices. I thought it was an extremely loose environment, but then I've worked for some real tightasses.
I certainly don't believe it's a bad thing that the admins need to learn. I left the Mac universe about 4 years ago for work and can't-play-the-games-I-want-on-it reasons and i was really excited to hear about what OS X was going to be.
However it is a big scary change for the admins. A necessary change, but scary nonetheless. The Mac generally hid alot of the raw computing tasks from it's users un until 10. Now there's a lot less of the hand-holding left, and it's like a bird getting pushed out of the nest, when it really, by god, needs to learn how to fly.
So it's illegal to read the EULA off of someone else's Windows XP distribution? Have you ever asked Microsoft for a copy of their EULA before you bought a copy of Windows XP?
I've made alot of stupid, poorly thought out postings in my day, but man... do you troll for a living?
It's detected as a trojan app by "most antivirus manufacturers" because they wrote their software to look specifically for Back Orifice and report it as a trojan app.
Of course, they don't detect PC Anywhere or any of the other "commercial" remote management tools that can be installed on your machine without your knowledge and run stealthily and used maliciously. Like anyone who wants it can't lay their hands on them. I'm not saying Back Orifice is the best tool or even a good tool. However, it is no different in function than many other freely and commercially available remote management tools, and the singling out of it is unfair and malicious in and of itself.
I've always thought it's funny you don't get to accept or decline the EULA until AFTER you plunk down your money for it...
I've always thought it funny that people get so damn surprised that Microsoft puts draconian restrictions like this into every new Windows EULA. You know they're going to do it, so why do you plunk your money down until you can find a copy of their EULA to review?
Besides, the BSA, which is the only organization that gives a damn and has the clout to go after people violating software licenses, won't go after you unless you're a business, or are dealing/distributing software. Microsoft/BSA couldn't care less if Joe Bob computer user manages their Windows machine with VNC. They do it so they can force corporations to buy more Microsoft software to manage their machines, and drive out any other competitors. Can you say "monopoly building"? I thought you could.
What $30 for the ability to author content is too much for you to spare?
Talk about cheap, I mean really. They _give_ you the server, and have the unmitigated gall to ask you to pay less than one dinner for two at a nice restaurant for the software that lets you author media for it. I'm certainly glad most open source advocates aren't the cheap bastards you appear to be. Well, at least I hope I'm wrong.
While geeks will figure out that MacOS X rocks, the masses still need to be reassured.
I think that all the programs that Apple has provided for free with OSX (iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, etc) that work almost without having to think about it will make the case. For the most part, Apple has done everything in it's power to make the user experience as similar as possible to the original Mac experience. There's an Apple menu. The dock, while I know people who don't like it, it's enough like the old Launcher app that people don't freak out trying to use it. The package technolgy that Apple built into OS X keeps the Drag-to-install that people got used with 9. I think the only real change from the user perspective is that it has a different finish, and the addition of user accounts, which not very many Mac users ever had to deal with before. That and Apple's made so much noise about how different it is under the hood, people are convinced it's going to act stranger than it actually will.
The real problem is going to be on the administrative side of the equation. The move to a UNIX base means almost everything has changed for the Mac administrator of today. Control Panels, Extensions, and the like as we knew them in OS 9 are gone for the most part. Alot of the Mac people that do administration tasks are scared to death of it. That's one reason I'm glad that Apple built Classic support into OS X. It gives the old school Mac admins the ability to still get things done, and the time to get up to speed on the way things are going to be from now on.
Gods reading all of this I'm getting flashbacks about all the crap I just got out of, being unemployed for 6 months until just recently, and with all kinds of shenanigans happening with my last paychecks and the severence, and I was laid off from a far more stable company (in theory).
I know that everyone that's was left at the end is kicking themselves for not getting the hell out of there when paychecks started coming. All the people here going at them about it apparently don't realize that you are your own worst critic. The people who were working at Loki are certainly going through nine kinds of hell over what they did to themselves, and they're gonna be paying for it for a long time. Lets have the decency not to kick them in the head when they're down.
My best wishes to all of them. You're gonna need all the luck you can get. May the gods take pity on you 'cause doesn't seem like anyone here does.
...and then people would start mistaking it for Apple's Clarus, the dog-cow.
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Uh, hate to break it to you people, but there ARE books on OS X out there.
The best example is in the Missing Manual series from O'Reilly. Very good, less expensive by half than the other books, and it's O'Reilly. It's also far less worshipful of Apple than most of the other ones I've read (UNIX was powerful but unusable until APPLE CAME ALONG AND SAVED THE DAY!!!! GOD BLESS APPLE!!!! - that kind of drivel)
There aren't MANY OS X books out there, but there are more than a few. If BN doesn't have Mac books anymore go to Borders. They've got a Mac section still. S'where I got mine.
I love it when people who've never played a game claim that it's worthless. You live in your little happy world there, pal. I prefer to actually play games before rendering judgement upon them. And I prefer to not have to deal with the idiocy of those who can't be bothered to back up their opinions with actual facts or experience.
I completely agree. I just got my hands on OS X Server and NetInfo is certainly the most complicated and voodoo-laden portions I've run across so far.
I've had more experience dealing with Unix systems than most MacOS-only sysadmins I deal with, and I can divine the basic meanings of most of the stuff in there, but I know I can't use it to it's full exent with my limited knowledge, and it's not exactly something you want to just mess around with semi-randomly unless you enjoy reinstalling the operating system.
Well, laser emitting diodes are obviously able to do this many many times faster, as your average fiber line has a bandwidth FAR exceeding the @10Mbps that seems to be the consensus that the LEDs that we're talking about . Is there a relatively simple way of hacking together a Point-to-point wireless system that uses this? What kind of distances and equipment are involved?
Could this be a way to create a poor man's fiber optics?
I'm no hardware hacker so I'm not exactly sure what might be involved in doing this, but if the average LED can push out data this fast, it seems like a good poor-man's fiber, or a poor-man's point-to-point wireless connection...
I am sick and tired of people complaining about this, and I've only read halfway down the page.
If you don't want your code to be shamelessly stolen from you, DON'T GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO. The Gnucleus team released it under the GPL. To hell with them and anyone else if they have a problem with how it was used. The GPL gives people you despise the power to take your work and do stuff you hate with it. If you don't like that, keep your source closed, or create a new license that requires contact with the author or what the hell ever hoops you want people to jump through before they can take your code.
You don't have to like it, but don't be so self-righteous about this crap. The Gnucleus team created code that's primary purpose (and we can all nod our heads and _say_ otherwise, but we know what's up, I do it and you do it) is to distribute copyrighted music without the permission of the author, which is illegal, and getting moreso every day. Honor among thieves? Get real...
Please check your facts before you blindly and stupidly agree with everything the little blurb has to say. It's been proven time and time again that Slashdot posters don't bother to check their facts before saying any of this stuff. Don't perpetuate their stupidity.
Slashdot is a public forum where people can excercise their 1st Amendment right to free speech (even if they don't have a right to free speech where they are from) which means they can be completely misinformed and/or outright lying to us to further some end of theirs.
If you're here looking for journalism or integrity in any way shape or form (aside from the links to news articles posted here) just wake the hell up. There has never been any here.
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The Aliens Doom TC will be forever, in my mind, the mod that all other mods aspire to. Few games or movies scared the bejeezus out of me like the Aliens TC. For the time, it was the most realistic, immersive experience I'd ever had. After the first playthrough it wasn't nearly as good, as you knew what was going to happen, but that firs time through was something to be remembered.
I've got the exact opposite experience with Mozilla versus Omniweb. On my G3/500 iBook with 384MB RAM, Mozilla is almost glacial, whereas OmniWeb is quite fast. However, Omniweb doesn't have nearly as many configuration options as Mozilla does (like the dissalowing pop-unders and the like) so I still use Mozilla as my main browser. I really wish I could be using OmniWeb or Chimera, 'cause they're both much much faster on my machine, but they just don't offer what I need.
That's a nice way to get modded up, but probably not so accurate. Try: Our society--particularly our highschool society--accords outgoing and friendly people (who tend to move toward social activities like sports and dating) limitless respect, and people with tremendous egos because they unlocked the secrets of programming instead of flirting almost none.
Try using a finer brush there, buddy. All high school-age social outcast geeks are not egomaniac tech prima donnas. Outgoing and friendly? Is this the same country we're living in? Outgoing and friendly people don't berate and ostracise people who are nerdy techno geeks just because they're socially inept.
Don't forget those with tremendous egos because they're spending their time on the football field or flirting in the halls and at parties instead of maybe picking up a book once in a while. These are the people that our society expects to go to the NFL and get multi-million dollar contracts and get TV sponsorships. These are the people who are shepherded through their college classes, with their professors threatened with being fired if they don't pass the star player who happens to be either brain dead, or to self-important to be bothered to write his own English 101 paper. These are the people that commit crimes that get other people thrown in jail, but have it covered up or recieve wrist-spalling punishments because the greedy bastards who run this country want their almamater to kick State's ass next week, and they can't do it without the "problem case" star player. Some people will do anything to be with/sleep with you. People will give you free stuff just because you're on hte team. Your name in lights. And it doesn't make a good god damn whether you're a complete egomaniac asshole. No one will care, and in fact would be surprised if you weren't.
Whereas your local egotistical tech geek would probably make around 100k a year to be worked like a slave in a corporate IT department for 60+ hours/week. If management could be rid of you and your inceassant droning about how this or that needs to be fixed and that we need this or that new thing, which costs money the company doesn't have, they'd do it in a heartbeat, but you're the only one that knows this or that system that's in place at your place of employment. Everyone and their brother in the company either does their best to avoid you, or is looking for any excuse to kick your ass to the curb because you're such a dickweed to everyone.
Which do you think is more valued in this society? Friendliness and an outgoing nature merely makes someone who's more interested in fsck-ing than fucking acceptable in polite society. For the athletic and beautiful among us, it's strictly optional.
You obviously haven't been paying attention to recent gaming history, have you?
"near-flat-shaded cartoonish games" made the PSOne the most popular console ever. The crappy PSX chewed up and swallowed the Dreamcast (which when in the right hands can push pixels at least as well as the launch PS2 games did) and would've done so to the N64 if the Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon franchises hadn't kept it hanging on for dear life. Both of those systems have _far_ superior graphics, and both fell before the PSX.
Even games don't make the console. The Dreamcast had at least twice the number of games released in the US in its 1.5 year run before the death announcement than the N64 had when it was released in 1996. It's got some of the best games I've ever played. Skies, of Arcadia, Armada, Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, the playable Jedi Power Battles, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2. More and more DC games get ported and sequeled on other systems all the time. Yet somehow it didn't survive.
Image makes or breaks systems. Image killed the Dreamcast because of the "power" of a system that wasn't even out for more than a year after the DC's release. Image is what's giving Microsoft's Xbox some serious problems, because alot people just despise Microsoft, and while they may feel that they can't get away from them on the PC, they can sure as hell not give them any more money.
There's one or two Xbox titles I'd want to play. Ones that would normally get me to buy the system, but I'm not doing it because it's Microsoft, and I'm trying to take a stand. No it won't bring them down. Sony and Nintento aren't wonderful by any means, I have no illusions about this. It's just where I feel can have the most impact on preventing Microsoft from extending their defacto monopoly. And from what I can see it's working pretty well.
The day Microsoft announces that the Xbox is dead, I'll buy a used one and some games, but not before then.
Well, that wouldn't really be counteracting gravity. No more than putting something in a box is countering gravity. You're manipulating the environment (in this case, space time) so it keeps whatever where you want it.
Bought my reg key yesterday and am finally getting to play around with it!
Gods, I missed this stuff. This is so much better, and runs on X!!! Woo hoo!
I'm not sure how much Compaq will "suitize" HP. There is a good chance that Compaq will, in the end, be the one who takes over Hewlett Packard, not the other way around. There are alot of strong wills in the Compaq organization, not the least of which are the ex-Digital people. (The general opinion of about a year ago, when I was working in Compaq for a consultancy was that while Compaq had forked out the money, it was Digital that took over the company...a whole lot of dirty politics and strong wills battling in there) It wouldn't surprise me if Compaq reshapes HP more than the other way around, but there aren't that many actual suits running around in Compaq's Houston offices. I thought it was an extremely loose environment, but then I've worked for some real tightasses.
I certainly don't believe it's a bad thing that the admins need to learn. I left the Mac universe about 4 years ago for work and can't-play-the-games-I-want-on-it reasons and i was really excited to hear about what OS X was going to be.
However it is a big scary change for the admins. A necessary change, but scary nonetheless. The Mac generally hid alot of the raw computing tasks from it's users un until 10. Now there's a lot less of the hand-holding left, and it's like a bird getting pushed out of the nest, when it really, by god, needs to learn how to fly.
So it's illegal to read the EULA off of someone else's Windows XP distribution? Have you ever asked Microsoft for a copy of their EULA before you bought a copy of Windows XP?
I've made alot of stupid, poorly thought out postings in my day, but man... do you troll for a living?
It's detected as a trojan app by "most antivirus manufacturers" because they wrote their software to look specifically for Back Orifice and report it as a trojan app.
Of course, they don't detect PC Anywhere or any of the other "commercial" remote management tools that can be installed on your machine without your knowledge and run stealthily and used maliciously. Like anyone who wants it can't lay their hands on them. I'm not saying Back Orifice is the best tool or even a good tool. However, it is no different in function than many other freely and commercially available remote management tools, and the singling out of it is unfair and malicious in and of itself.
I've always thought it's funny you don't get to accept or decline the EULA until AFTER you plunk down your money for it...
I've always thought it funny that people get so damn surprised that Microsoft puts draconian restrictions like this into every new Windows EULA. You know they're going to do it, so why do you plunk your money down until you can find a copy of their EULA to review?
Besides, the BSA, which is the only organization that gives a damn and has the clout to go after people violating software licenses, won't go after you unless you're a business, or are dealing/distributing software. Microsoft/BSA couldn't care less if Joe Bob computer user manages their Windows machine with VNC. They do it so they can force corporations to buy more Microsoft software to manage their machines, and drive out any other competitors. Can you say "monopoly building"? I thought you could.
Load it on your unlicensed Windows partition which you guiltily use to play Starcraft. Come on, I won't tell anyone.
What $30 for the ability to author content is too much for you to spare?
Talk about cheap, I mean really. They _give_ you the server, and have the unmitigated gall to ask you to pay less than one dinner for two at a nice restaurant for the software that lets you author media for it. I'm certainly glad most open source advocates aren't the cheap bastards you appear to be. Well, at least I hope I'm wrong.
I don't have anything aside from Jon Katz filtered out on the front page, and I'm not seeing it on my regular slashdot front page.
While geeks will figure out that MacOS X rocks, the masses still need to be reassured.
I think that all the programs that Apple has provided for free with OSX (iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, etc) that work almost without having to think about it will make the case. For the most part, Apple has done everything in it's power to make the user experience as similar as possible to the original Mac experience. There's an Apple menu. The dock, while I know people who don't like it, it's enough like the old Launcher app that people don't freak out trying to use it. The package technolgy that Apple built into OS X keeps the Drag-to-install that people got used with 9. I think the only real change from the user perspective is that it has a different finish, and the addition of user accounts, which not very many Mac users ever had to deal with before. That and Apple's made so much noise about how different it is under the hood, people are convinced it's going to act stranger than it actually will.
The real problem is going to be on the administrative side of the equation. The move to a UNIX base means almost everything has changed for the Mac administrator of today. Control Panels, Extensions, and the like as we knew them in OS 9 are gone for the most part. Alot of the Mac people that do administration tasks are scared to death of it. That's one reason I'm glad that Apple built Classic support into OS X. It gives the old school Mac admins the ability to still get things done, and the time to get up to speed on the way things are going to be from now on.
Gods reading all of this I'm getting flashbacks about all the crap I just got out of, being unemployed for 6 months until just recently, and with all kinds of shenanigans happening with my last paychecks and the severence, and I was laid off from a far more stable company (in theory).
I know that everyone that's was left at the end is kicking themselves for not getting the hell out of there when paychecks started coming. All the people here going at them about it apparently don't realize that you are your own worst critic. The people who were working at Loki are certainly going through nine kinds of hell over what they did to themselves, and they're gonna be paying for it for a long time. Lets have the decency not to kick them in the head when they're down.
My best wishes to all of them. You're gonna need all the luck you can get. May the gods take pity on you 'cause doesn't seem like anyone here does.
...and then people would start mistaking it for Apple's Clarus, the dog-cow.
Uh, hate to break it to you people, but there ARE books on OS X out there.
The best example is in the Missing Manual series from O'Reilly. Very good, less expensive by half than the other books, and it's O'Reilly. It's also far less worshipful of Apple than most of the other ones I've read (UNIX was powerful but unusable until APPLE CAME ALONG AND SAVED THE DAY!!!! GOD BLESS APPLE!!!! - that kind of drivel)
There aren't MANY OS X books out there, but there are more than a few. If BN doesn't have Mac books anymore go to Borders. They've got a Mac section still. S'where I got mine.
I love it when people who've never played a game claim that it's worthless. You live in your little happy world there, pal. I prefer to actually play games before rendering judgement upon them. And I prefer to not have to deal with the idiocy of those who can't be bothered to back up their opinions with actual facts or experience.
I completely agree. I just got my hands on OS X Server and NetInfo is certainly the most complicated and voodoo-laden portions I've run across so far.
I've had more experience dealing with Unix systems than most MacOS-only sysadmins I deal with, and I can divine the basic meanings of most of the stuff in there, but I know I can't use it to it's full exent with my limited knowledge, and it's not exactly something you want to just mess around with semi-randomly unless you enjoy reinstalling the operating system.
Anyone heard of someone writing a book on it?
Well, laser emitting diodes are obviously able to do this many many times faster, as your average fiber line has a bandwidth FAR exceeding the @10Mbps that seems to be the consensus that the LEDs that we're talking about . Is there a relatively simple way of hacking together a Point-to-point wireless system that uses this? What kind of distances and equipment are involved?
Could this be a way to create a poor man's fiber optics?
I'm no hardware hacker so I'm not exactly sure what might be involved in doing this, but if the average LED can push out data this fast, it seems like a good poor-man's fiber, or a poor-man's point-to-point wireless connection...
I am sick and tired of people complaining about this, and I've only read halfway down the page.
If you don't want your code to be shamelessly stolen from you, DON'T GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO. The Gnucleus team released it under the GPL. To hell with them and anyone else if they have a problem with how it was used. The GPL gives people you despise the power to take your work and do stuff you hate with it. If you don't like that, keep your source closed, or create a new license that requires contact with the author or what the hell ever hoops you want people to jump through before they can take your code.
You don't have to like it, but don't be so self-righteous about this crap. The Gnucleus team created code that's primary purpose (and we can all nod our heads and _say_ otherwise, but we know what's up, I do it and you do it) is to distribute copyrighted music without the permission of the author, which is illegal, and getting moreso every day. Honor among thieves? Get real...
Please check your facts before you blindly and stupidly agree with everything the little blurb has to say. It's been proven time and time again that Slashdot posters don't bother to check their facts before saying any of this stuff. Don't perpetuate their stupidity.
Slashdot is a public forum where people can excercise their 1st Amendment right to free speech (even if they don't have a right to free speech where they are from) which means they can be completely misinformed and/or outright lying to us to further some end of theirs.
If you're here looking for journalism or integrity in any way shape or form (aside from the links to news articles posted here) just wake the hell up. There has never been any here.