Hi, I'm running Civ III on the 600 Mhz G3 iBook. It plays perfectly. I notice no performance difference with Quartz for text on or off, except it looks so much better on so I use Quartz. I would say Civ III is a poster child for an OS X app.
Perhaps try the lastest patch? Other than that I don't know what to say, other than that you know that the time spent by units moving around is intentional (you can turn it off, but then you will get severely clobbered when your enemies sneak up on you!)?
The big issue I have with Civ III is quitting. For some reason I can not quit till 4 in the morning! Also, Gandhi launching nukes at you is a little bizzare.
What if I limit my demand to "accessible from any internet connected Windows machine with Java installed?" Are there good web sites devoted to this noble goal?"
microsoft.com/dot_net. You don't even need Java. M$ loves you... bwa-ha-ha-ha!
The article mentioned that states have started using 2D barcodes that contain fingerprint information. That, with full name, address and SSN could probably do it. And if they needed your mother's maiden name, well, she's probably been to that store, too.:(
This is making the encrypted national ID cards in Asia look a lot better. If I understood correctly, different info is encrypted differently, so that the bar may access age information, but not anything else.
Until then, scratch the magnetic strip on the back of your card.
but I've left work and my brain has shut down for the day.
Funny, it works the other way round with me.
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Like all the times they beat us in the space race. Satelites. Probes. Rovers. Etc.
Ask the Nazis what they thought of Soviet central planning. It did not seem to matter that the Red Army lost personnel and material in quantities that would have decimated any other form of government. The will to fight came from a very stubborn center. The/entire//country/ was doing nothing but producing weapons scientists, weapons factories, and soldiers. After Germany lost their first campaign, it was all over. The Soviets produced effective tanks and planes with single-minded dedication in quantities Germany could never hope to match.
Centralized planning can be very good for a small number of projects that need to be rushed.
You and others are getting stuck in vocabulary. It doesn't matter what you think shareware used to be, or what you think programs that limit functionality should be called. What matters is that most people are not supporting software they consider to be useful, and that could kill shareware, even your definition of it.
Ambrosia is a small shop that makes some seriously cool products. They used to ask that if you found the product useful to pay. Then they grew up, needed money to survive, and found that though people really used their products, most didn't pay. So now instead of just asking, they are doing something about it.
Software, and other strings of bits that are useful, are unique in that their marginal cost is near zero. Most economists will tell you that these constitute a public good, and that the most efficient way to pay for them is/not/ to charge individual users. The problem is that no one has come up with an acceptable way to reimburse the little guys like Ambrosia who are trying to save for their kids' college, and your quibbling over the term shareware is missing these important issues.
A great feature ANA had was the ability under the Help menu to contact a local tech, who you could then give control of your session to, and watch as she helped you with something. Very cool in a lab environment.
How do I edit footnotes? Click Help and watch the tech step you through it.
Wind, geothermal, tidal and solar energy resources can be added to the mix, but they will never supplant fossil fuel energy. For that we need something big.
One can try to make fun of people for being suspicious of nuclear power, but this guy is at the other end of the spectrum. "We need something big"? Solar power and the sun aint big enough for you? Tides and the oceans aren't big enough for you? We abolutely/must/ rush out and mine the moon for fusion power?
This guy has a (theoretical) solution in search of a problem. He threatens the end of civilization when fossil fuels run out if we don't mine the stars. Let me guess, he used to write grant proposals for NASA.
I dunno, check out the Altivec Forum and the Scitech List, people writing in C seeing large performance improvements.
From what I understand, the RC-5 and SETI apps are C with pre-compiler directives. The RC-5 G4 client blows throws keys 16 times faster than a same-speed P4.
Never attribute to malice that which may be explained by stupidity.
Or just an incompetently executed campaign.
Epson has always supported the Mac well. Most traditional Mac users swore by Epson in the Dark Days when everyone left but Epson continued to provide their entire product line. Most of these traditional Mac users also haven't left OS 9 so Epson hasn't had to, but give it a few months now that Photoshop 7 (for OS X) is set to appear.
Yes, but do we really need a plethora of new, similar, but incompatible hardware to do the same thing? Some pumps take Speedpass, some take Magikwatch, some take CrazyWand, MickyDees takes one but not the other, Burger King takes the other but not the one. Suddenly I have a hundred watches and wands and cards and strips on my keyring and this is supposed to be convenient? Why can't we just make standard improvements to a standard credit card?
God forbid I go to a machine that takes all these furbies...
they have not done studies to se if it would be possible to produce an OS without the browser imbedded in it.
Come on! Has it really been that long ago that Windows didn't have a browser imbedded in it that people have forgotten? Aren't there OSes now that are perfectly competitive that don't have browsers imbedded in them? Why do people think they can make such blatantly false statements?
Column view -- bleah. (Remember using NeXT boxes in college. Didn't like column view then either.)
The point is, UI is a very personal thing, especially when you're used to One Way. I/love/ column view. Maybe when he gets used to OS X, he'll start appreciating the UI, too.
As for slow Dock navigation, he's almost figured it out: control-click. Which is right-click on a two-button mouse. As for why Macs don't come with a two-button mouse... *ducks as war erupts*
Your prediction assumes that all web developers will want to 1. learn a new language, and 2. re-write their existing sites.
While you may want to spend time learning and porting (especially since you describe your old site as a kludge), many developers would rather spend the time creating new content (especially if their existing sites work well).
Not to mention, the learning and usability curves for Lasso and Perl are on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Instead of duct-taping a horribly designed chip in with water-cooling and refridgeration units, why not just use a more efficient chip architecture? It's not like they aren't available. And the market's large enough to support more.
No, Itanium will not become commodity as soon as you foresee because compilers and software do not exist to make good use of it (some argue nothing can make good use of it [derogatory]).
No, Intel has not killed the competition. AMD is alive and well. The PowerPC family is on the verge of The Next Big Thing (G5). And the reports of Sparc's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
No, other vendors are not irrelevant. Hitachi makes killer chips for big iron, and looks set to increase that trend. If anything, the CPU market is looking less and less like a monopoly than before.
We bought a couple of PowerEdges, and had to get them with Windows even though we wiped the drives and installed Red Hat. The Red Hat version was much more expensive, because they forced you to buy an expensive support agreement (which we did not need) and no refund for Windows because if we wanted Linux why didn't we buy the Linux version? Of course now Dell can show bad sales for Linux boxes which makes the conspiracy theorists at our department wonder...
Yes, but to be taken seriously by the masses, they don't want your involvement to end. This article was about computing for the masses.
In any case, you know what I mean: the OSS company. OSS as an idea will obviously survive without money, but will lack support, design, and all the things that make a product desirable and useful to the masses.
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Hi, I'm running Civ III on the 600 Mhz G3 iBook. It plays perfectly. I notice no performance difference with Quartz for text on or off, except it looks so much better on so I use Quartz. I would say Civ III is a poster child for an OS X app.
Perhaps try the lastest patch? Other than that I don't know what to say, other than that you know that the time spent by units moving around is intentional (you can turn it off, but then you will get severely clobbered when your enemies sneak up on you!)?
The big issue I have with Civ III is quitting. For some reason I can not quit till 4 in the morning! Also, Gandhi launching nukes at you is a little bizzare.
What if I limit my demand to "accessible from any internet connected Windows machine with Java installed?" Are there good web sites devoted to this noble goal?"
microsoft.com/dot_net. You don't even need Java. M$ loves you... bwa-ha-ha-ha!
:)
The article mentioned that states have started using 2D barcodes that contain fingerprint information. That, with full name, address and SSN could probably do it. And if they needed your mother's maiden name, well, she's probably been to that store, too. :(
This is making the encrypted national ID cards in Asia look a lot better. If I understood correctly, different info is encrypted differently, so that the bar may access age information, but not anything else.
Until then, scratch the magnetic strip on the back of your card.
but I've left work and my brain has shut down for the day.
Funny, it works the other way round with me.
Like all the times they beat us in the space race. Satelites. Probes. Rovers. Etc.
Ask the Nazis what they thought of Soviet central planning. It did not seem to matter that the Red Army lost personnel and material in quantities that would have decimated any other form of government. The will to fight came from a very stubborn center. The /entire/ /country/ was doing nothing but producing weapons scientists, weapons factories, and soldiers. After Germany lost their first campaign, it was all over. The Soviets produced effective tanks and planes with single-minded dedication in quantities Germany could never hope to match.
Centralized planning can be very good for a small number of projects that need to be rushed.
There are two immediate problems with your invisible hand scenario:
1. The startups no longer seem capable of competing with the established behemoths;
2. The number of established behemoths seems to be tending towards one.
You and others are getting stuck in vocabulary. It doesn't matter what you think shareware used to be, or what you think programs that limit functionality should be called. What matters is that most people are not supporting software they consider to be useful, and that could kill shareware, even your definition of it.
Ambrosia is a small shop that makes some seriously cool products. They used to ask that if you found the product useful to pay. Then they grew up, needed money to survive, and found that though people really used their products, most didn't pay. So now instead of just asking, they are doing something about it.
Software, and other strings of bits that are useful, are unique in that their marginal cost is near zero. Most economists will tell you that these constitute a public good, and that the most efficient way to pay for them is /not/ to charge individual users. The problem is that no one has come up with an acceptable way to reimburse the little guys like Ambrosia who are trying to save for their kids' college, and your quibbling over the term shareware is missing these important issues.
A great feature ANA had was the ability under the Help menu to contact a local tech, who you could then give control of your session to, and watch as she helped you with something. Very cool in a lab environment.
How do I edit footnotes? Click Help and watch the tech step you through it.
Wind, geothermal, tidal and solar energy resources can be added to the mix, but they will never supplant fossil fuel energy. For that we need something big.
One can try to make fun of people for being suspicious of nuclear power, but this guy is at the other end of the spectrum. "We need something big"? Solar power and the sun aint big enough for you? Tides and the oceans aren't big enough for you? We abolutely /must/ rush out and mine the moon for fusion power?
This guy has a (theoretical) solution in search of a problem. He threatens the end of civilization when fossil fuels run out if we don't mine the stars. Let me guess, he used to write grant proposals for NASA.
*Sigh* Yes, but we're talking about Altivec.
If you like bits so much, please note that Altivec is 128 bits.
I dunno, check out the Altivec Forum and the Scitech List, people writing in C seeing large performance improvements.
From what I understand, the RC-5 and SETI apps are C with pre-compiler directives. The RC-5 G4 client blows throws keys 16 times faster than a same-speed P4.
Never attribute to malice that which may be explained by stupidity.
Or just an incompetently executed campaign.
Epson has always supported the Mac well. Most traditional Mac users swore by Epson in the Dark Days when everyone left but Epson continued to provide their entire product line. Most of these traditional Mac users also haven't left OS 9 so Epson hasn't had to, but give it a few months now that Photoshop 7 (for OS X) is set to appear.
Anonymously? How many HP driver developers left their jobs three months ago to help their wives raise their daughters?
Yes, but do we really need a plethora of new, similar, but incompatible hardware to do the same thing? Some pumps take Speedpass, some take Magikwatch, some take CrazyWand, MickyDees takes one but not the other, Burger King takes the other but not the one. Suddenly I have a hundred watches and wands and cards and strips on my keyring and this is supposed to be convenient? Why can't we just make standard improvements to a standard credit card?
God forbid I go to a machine that takes all these furbies...
they have not done studies to se if it would be possible to produce an OS without the browser imbedded in it.
Come on! Has it really been that long ago that Windows didn't have a browser imbedded in it that people have forgotten? Aren't there OSes now that are perfectly competitive that don't have browsers imbedded in them? Why do people think they can make such blatantly false statements?
Column view -- bleah. (Remember using NeXT boxes in college. Didn't like column view then either.)
The point is, UI is a very personal thing, especially when you're used to One Way. I /love/ column view. Maybe when he gets used to OS X, he'll start appreciating the UI, too.
As for slow Dock navigation, he's almost figured it out: control-click. Which is right-click on a two-button mouse. As for why Macs don't come with a two-button mouse... *ducks as war erupts*
I think there's a certain irony in modding Apple products for appearance since that's so much part of the price in the first place.
And those Firewire ports. And that wireless hardware. And that composite video out. And the stock Nvidea card. And all those consumer apps. And...
Don't try to compare Apple hardware to bargin basement powersupply-cpu-harddrive boxes. There is no comparison.
Your prediction assumes that all web developers will want to 1. learn a new language, and 2. re-write their existing sites.
While you may want to spend time learning and porting (especially since you describe your old site as a kludge), many developers would rather spend the time creating new content (especially if their existing sites work well).
Not to mention, the learning and usability curves for Lasso and Perl are on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Instead of duct-taping a horribly designed chip in with water-cooling and refridgeration units, why not just use a more efficient chip architecture? It's not like they aren't available. And the market's large enough to support more.
Ahh! That new theme is still a little shocking!
Anyway, I have never had the issue with detecting external monitors that you speak of. I simply choose the resolution that says dual display.
In addition to translucent, try the typeface Monaco 12 or 13. Anti-aliasing in the terminal is sweet!
No, Itanium will not become commodity as soon as you foresee because compilers and software do not exist to make good use of it (some argue nothing can make good use of it [derogatory]).
No, Intel has not killed the competition. AMD is alive and well. The PowerPC family is on the verge of The Next Big Thing (G5). And the reports of Sparc's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
No, other vendors are not irrelevant. Hitachi makes killer chips for big iron, and looks set to increase that trend. If anything, the CPU market is looking less and less like a monopoly than before.
We bought a couple of PowerEdges, and had to get them with Windows even though we wiped the drives and installed Red Hat. The Red Hat version was much more expensive, because they forced you to buy an expensive support agreement (which we did not need) and no refund for Windows because if we wanted Linux why didn't we buy the Linux version? Of course now Dell can show bad sales for Linux boxes which makes the conspiracy theorists at our department wonder...
3)My involvement ends.
Yes, but to be taken seriously by the masses, they don't want your involvement to end. This article was about computing for the masses.
In any case, you know what I mean: the OSS company. OSS as an idea will obviously survive without money, but will lack support, design, and all the things that make a product desirable and useful to the masses.