cant imagine playing warcraft or quake on a console system.Simply no fun.
I agree... but that's about it, isn't it?
The consoles have 2 achilles' heels in regards to superior controller hardware: RTS and FPS. Every other kind of game is superior with something like a console controller: racing, action, platform, flying, adventure... all of 'em.
So while I agree with you in your particular point regarding RTS games, how long do you think it'll take the console makers to come up with something that works as well for those games?
The TV resolution won't even be an issue in a few years, as HDTVs and other pseudo-hi-res sets start to trickle in.
Of course, you can go the opposite way and plug a PS2 style controller into your PC... but thats sort of admitting that you really want a console game. Frankly, a $800 gaming PC is crappy value compared to any console. What you might gain in screen rez is negated by having to deal with drivers, incompatibilities, cheaters, and the fact that the 'state' on your PC, capabilities-wise, will be obsolete even faster than the fixed game decks.
"iTunes should abandon that proprietary audio/video format they are clinging to and just go along with what the consumers have picked to be the defacto standard."
Even on Slashdot no-one seems to be bringing it up these days. For me, the benchmarks aren't even worth looking at with the knowledge that these processors are the beginning of the DRM revolution. Seems they're being able to sneak the technology inside every PC just as they've planned it.
You bring up an excellent point, and one that I wonder about.
At some point, the Slashdot/Ars/Tom's crowd and others who are a little more informed will identify the 'last great un-hobbled processor', i.e. the fastest thing you can buy before the Palladium/DRM stuff starts to become baked into the CPUs. Right now it looks like AMD and Intel will both be using some kind of Trusted (ahem) platform and BIOS. A lot of people will buy that processor(s) and then there will be a drop-off. As it is, not too many people get excited about the difference between 3 and 3.4 Ghz... ask yourself, which would you buy: a 'non-trusted' 3Ghz CPU or a DRM'd 3.4ghz?
Of course the unwashed masses will not know the difference (it makes the interweb go fastar!!!!111!!1)... but the alpha geeks are the ones who pay the premium for the latest gear so AMD/Intel may actually register a hit in sales.
If you want make air travel safe from terrorists, fill the plane with sleeping gas.(stole that idea from Donald Trump)
I used to think this was a good idea until I asked an anaesthesiologist. Turns out there is no one-size-fits-all gas dosage. You'd wind up killing some, while others would remain conscious.
I find the discussion about '.mobile' somewhat boring, just because I have yet to see a really compelling mobile phone/online experience.
I am probably not in the know as I'm in Canada, and I really only have those impressions (along with what I've seen in the US) that I've seen up here... but boy does it suck. Rogers, for instance, tries to charge you by the kilobyte - and then ads useless colour banners with big file sizes to their so-called mobile sites... and then they disable the image-blocking feature on the T68i they sell. Nice huh?
When I can just get some basic info quickly on a mobile phone without hassle - movie times, directions, etc - then I'll be interested. Frankly its a development problem, and a design problem... a new TLD isn't going to help there...
i NEVER, EVER trust what the finder says... the good news is that this update does have the finder updating other stuff correctly, so this may be covered. i still won't ever trust it again.
The Finder does update correctly now, but you're right - don't ever, ever trust it again. The Finder has betrayed you before, and it won't hesitate to stab you in the back again, given half a chance. And then where will you be? Sitting at home alone, drinking bourbon, weeping softly into a cracked mirror.
Apple has not fixed the bug introduced in the last Bluetooth Update (1.5, which is included with 10.3.3)... the Caller ID window for incoming calls stays focused with the Address Book app and does not pop to the front. Which basically makes it useless.
I hope they fix it soon - its great to be able to leave your phone on silent in your jacket pocket, so you can use your headphones...
Sometimes (10% of the time?) I just get a black screen on wake and have to reboot (CAPSLOCK key LED turns on/off though...so it ain't "dead").
... I've experienced this as well - you don't need to reboot. Just close the lid, let it sleep, and open it again. It always works the 2nd time. (Here's hoping they fixed it though.)
Looking further, it is clear that Groove is comfortably in bed with Microsoft.... So I am quite sure they will "make damn sure this system is safe".....
Now that's comedy.
I'm quite sure it will be as secure as you say; easy to use as well, and not ever crash, and it will Gov't workers to fly around the fucking room.
Well, with this pairing, that means whenever I take my kids to see the latest Pixar movie, I will be stuck with Apple commercials on top of all of the other commercials, the RIAA documentary, and all of the half-hour long previews that pretty much show you the whole movie (or at least the best parts).
Because it's totally unnecessarily. A color screen is useful only for graphics, and the iPod doesn't need that.
While I agree with you completely, I could easily see Apple using a kind of inexpensive in-between technology to introduce some colour to the display, if for purely aesthetic reasons (this is Apple we're talking about).
Some of the newer low-cost Nokias have pseudo-colour screens that look like the real deal, until you try to put some graphics on them and realize how chunky they come out. It's nice for coloured text though, and doesn't seem to impact battery life.
The iPod is not going to be screening photos or videos anytime soon but it would be nice to have a coloured calendar on there, to match all my iCals, for instance.
Back on Classic Mac OS I would generally do a clean build with each major system release, more to clean out old extensions, preferences, and other crud than deal with system stability issues. On the whole, Classic Mac OS might have crashed on occasion, but in didn't catastrophically fail and require a complete rebuild the way Windows tends to.
You just reminded me -- I had a friend who had a Quadra named Godzilla (one of the minifridge-sized ones the old Avids used to come in, with flames painted on it). He liked to name his System 7 harddisks 'New York' and 'Tokyo'... just so that when you held down option on boot it presented you with:
FWIW, with the Norah Jones track 'Creepin In' (not used in this test) I can not only ABX every codec bar musepack, I can also spot the aac and mp3 variants because of the way they degrade.
For myself, I regard the new SW films as just pure exercises in fantastic design. It's a real shame I think.. not just that the movies are not very well written, but the flip side of that coin: they are fantastically, stupendously well done in terms of art direction and technical prowess.
Be like me: if you regard Ep.3 as a kind of CG coffee-table-book, you'll get more enjoyment out of it. Set expectations of plot to zero and you can't be disappointed, right?
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I agree... but that's about it, isn't it?
The consoles have 2 achilles' heels in regards to superior controller hardware: RTS and FPS. Every other kind of game is superior with something like a console controller: racing, action, platform, flying, adventure... all of 'em.
So while I agree with you in your particular point regarding RTS games, how long do you think it'll take the console makers to come up with something that works as well for those games?
The TV resolution won't even be an issue in a few years, as HDTVs and other pseudo-hi-res sets start to trickle in.
Of course, you can go the opposite way and plug a PS2 style controller into your PC... but thats sort of admitting that you really want a console game. Frankly, a $800 gaming PC is crappy value compared to any console. What you might gain in screen rez is negated by having to deal with drivers, incompatibilities, cheaters, and the fact that the 'state' on your PC, capabilities-wise, will be obsolete even faster than the fixed game decks.
Proprietary? You mean that Dolby codec?
How is that worse than Fraunhofer's codec?
You say "Microsoft is so second rate". I recall seeing plenty of similar posts when the Xbox was announced
Xbox is in 2nd place, in console sales.
I'm not sayin'... I'm just sayin'.
You bring up an excellent point, and one that I wonder about.
At some point, the Slashdot/Ars/Tom's crowd and others who are a little more informed will identify the 'last great un-hobbled processor', i.e. the fastest thing you can buy before the Palladium/DRM stuff starts to become baked into the CPUs. Right now it looks like AMD and Intel will both be using some kind of Trusted (ahem) platform and BIOS. A lot of people will buy that processor(s) and then there will be a drop-off. As it is, not too many people get excited about the difference between 3 and 3.4 Ghz... ask yourself, which would you buy: a 'non-trusted' 3Ghz CPU or a DRM'd 3.4ghz?
Of course the unwashed masses will not know the difference (it makes the interweb go fastar!!!!111!!1)... but the alpha geeks are the ones who pay the premium for the latest gear so AMD/Intel may actually register a hit in sales.
This site actually has a German G5 vs. Athlon benchmark posted right now.
Neither one is like Tom's (good or bad)... but its something.
I kid, I kid.
You can use 'em for protein folding too.
I used to think this was a good idea until I asked an anaesthesiologist. Turns out there is no one-size-fits-all gas dosage. You'd wind up killing some, while others would remain conscious.
This.
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. (oh crap! did I just ensure its success?)
I actually did a spit-take when i read that... thanks for the laugh.
Never. They are all corrupted now, so that original intent is sort of out the window. After all, Slashdot is hardly a nonprofit.
I am probably not in the know as I'm in Canada, and I really only have those impressions (along with what I've seen in the US) that I've seen up here... but boy does it suck. Rogers, for instance, tries to charge you by the kilobyte - and then ads useless colour banners with big file sizes to their so-called mobile sites... and then they disable the image-blocking feature on the T68i they sell. Nice huh?
When I can just get some basic info quickly on a mobile phone without hassle - movie times, directions, etc - then I'll be interested. Frankly its a development problem, and a design problem... a new TLD isn't going to help there...
The Finder does update correctly now, but you're right - don't ever, ever trust it again. The Finder has betrayed you before, and it won't hesitate to stab you in the back again, given half a chance. And then where will you be? Sitting at home alone, drinking bourbon, weeping softly into a cracked mirror.
With the wrong file sizes.
I hope they fix it soon - its great to be able to leave your phone on silent in your jacket pocket, so you can use your headphones...
Sometimes (10% of the time?) I just get a black screen on wake and have to reboot (CAPSLOCK key LED turns on/off though...so it ain't "dead").
Now that's comedy.
I'm quite sure it will be as secure as you say; easy to use as well, and not ever crash, and it will Gov't workers to fly around the fucking room.
(Sorry, I'm posting pre-espresso.)
Oh probably. It'll go next to the Apple logos that are already there for Shake, RAYZ/Chalice, Logic, or what have you...
What about this?
Who modded this drek up? As if.
As opposed to what, troll? You think Photoshop or Maya are cheaper on another platform?
Or possibly you are clinging to the antiquated notion of a G5 not being price-competitive, in which case... how cute.
G5 + OS X + Maya + Photoshop + Pixlet = one kickass production environment.
Really though do they need to change the Linux farm? I'd be surprised if they did, there's no real need...
While I agree with you completely, I could easily see Apple using a kind of inexpensive in-between technology to introduce some colour to the display, if for purely aesthetic reasons (this is Apple we're talking about).
Some of the newer low-cost Nokias have pseudo-colour screens that look like the real deal, until you try to put some graphics on them and realize how chunky they come out. It's nice for coloured text though, and doesn't seem to impact battery life.
The iPod is not going to be screening photos or videos anytime soon but it would be nice to have a coloured calendar on there, to match all my iCals, for instance.
You just reminded me -- I had a friend who had a Quadra named Godzilla (one of the minifridge-sized ones the old Avids used to come in, with flames painted on it). He liked to name his System 7 harddisks 'New York' and 'Tokyo'... just so that when you held down option on boot it presented you with:
Are you sure you want to rebuild Tokyo?
It's the little things.
Did you calibrate the flux capacitor?
Be like me: if you regard Ep.3 as a kind of CG coffee-table-book, you'll get more enjoyment out of it. Set expectations of plot to zero and you can't be disappointed, right?