I happened into a TON of A/UX stuff a couple of years ago.
Official long-sleeved t-shirt (tan) with A/UX printed on the sleeves (red). Developer documentation (some of it still shrinkwrapped, most of it in binder format). A WGS95 with a fully functional install of (iirc) 3.1 on a 230 meg hdd.
The userland is an obvious precursour to modern OS X, except the System 7 environment actually ran Mac apps natively, rather than in an emulation wrapper.
I wonder if there's a modern version of Commando?:D
Until you get a power spike and BLAM! there goes your damned video card (disclaimer : my g5 was smoked this way), maybe.
Oh, and try finding a modernish multihead Mac video card without an ADC jack. That's another damned adapter! My home machine is dual head, both original oldass Apple monitors - so I'm going dvi -> vga -> mac and ADC -> vga -> mac - using a VGA twiddler to adapt an apple connection to an apple connection, go technology!
Grrr.
ADC is nothing new - remember Applevision?* It's the same exact concept. ADC just happens to implement it on newer hardware. Applevision supposedly bound sound in and out, ADB and video into one connector that looked a lot like the european video plugs - the "computer -> applevision" adapters looked like scary little beige octopi.
It amuses me that everything Apple's done over the last eight or so years (aside from the iPod, which is an outgrowth of over endeavours like the VOD boxes, Quicktakes and the Pippen) is stuff they've already done before - we're getting old concepts on modern technology** and everyone thinks that it's New And Awesome.
* I think that's what they called it - but this is Quadra / x100 era here. The funky plug on the 6100, 7100, 8100s that Apple had the good sense to drop for the 604s.
** I have a Workgroup Server 95 running A/UX, the original Apple Unix, sitting in my room. The thing runs either X or a System 7-era MacOS compatible environment, and is just as snappy on a 33mhz processor with 36 megs of RAM as my dual g4 450 with a gig of RAM is running OS X. If not more so. The thing is, imo, easily and obviously a precoursor to the NeXT-with-MacOS-compatability thinger cupertino's been pushing on us the last few years.
I'm currently using a DVI -> VGA adapter with a VGA -> Mac adapter plugged into it so I can run my 20" Apple-branded trinitron, which I've been using for years.
Some of us can't afford to buy new monitors just because the connectors change.:P
... the first REAL challenge the juarezkiddiez have had in years?:-)
Ready, set, go.
Seriously - Apple operating systems run on Apple-approved hardware ONLY, plzkthks. Has been, will be. We're back to roms but this time we know (to some extent, anyway?) what's in the damned things.
1. Resize from any side/corner of a window. You could at least drag by side borders in OS 9 - neither border-drag or side/corner resize is an option ins OS X. You use the bottom right corner or you live with it (this sucks for Photoshop).
2. Directories sorted before files. It's not a BIG thing, but I for one like it and wouldn't mind it being at least an option.
3. Windows tells me how big the directory I'm browsing is. Compare to OS X, which tells me how much free space I have on the disk, forcing me to get-info on a directory (or view as a list with "calculate all sizes" on, and be prepared to wait if it's a big directory) to find out how much space it's eating. Given just how big Apple is on the column view, you'd think they'd do something about this.:P
4. You can Fullscreen apps like IE and Firefox. And by full screen, I mean FULL. SCREEN. None of this dock shit - this functionality alone makes it a hell of a lot easier to use Windows for web kiosks.:P
I have a dual g5 at work, and a powerbook g3/400 at home. The G5 runs X, the pb runs 9, and lemme tell you.
The speed and responsiveness of text rendering (and 2d graphics) on an "ancient" OS on "ancient" hardware is BLOWING AWAY last year's machine on this year's os. Visibly faster in just about every single way that counts.
Yeah, Finder gets faster and faster with every release, but we're on the fifth version (6 counting PB and 7 counting Server) and it's still visibly slower than the Platinum finder at goddamned near EVERYTHING.
Gimme the warp speed text, plz. I'm tired of this shit crawling along just a hair slower than I can type.
I totally, totally hate the OS X finder. It's a living slap-in-the-face to any oldschool Mac user, driving home the point that this isn't MacOS anymore, it's NeXT. Yay.
I use Quicksilver for application launching, though some friends of mine also use it for document handling, etc.
Finder isn't the only reason that Macs are a mess these days, but it certainly adds to the confusion.
Verily, I miss the Platinum Finder. The Aqua Finder is no improvement.
That's the thing that sickens me the most about every Mac user I know who isn't me - they all seem to keep their entire goddamned filesystem on the desktop. Stick something in its Proper Place in the filesystem and they can't find it!
As hair pulling as this is, applications that tell me where I can put my data piss me off even more. You can't load Office, Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro without the app creating an $app_name Documents folder in/Users/$username/Documents. I keep ALL of my FCP and DVDSP data on a dedicated hard drive, so the fact that these apps routinely default to where they want me to save things is really annoying.
Wouldn't be as much of a pain in the ass if Apple would do for the fstab what they've done with iTunes. Mount/Volumes/$drive at/Users/$username/Documents and be done with it.
I have a 2.2 ghz AMD box on my desk, and a 2x2ghz G5. The AMD has a gig of ram and Win2k, the G5 has 2g ram and OS X 10.4.
Firefox HAULS ASS on the Win32 box. It's visibly slower on OS X - the UI is sluggish, and rendering isn't nearly as snappy, using current versions of both. But mostly, the UI is sluggish.
I'm no coder, but the hows and the whys of it are, I'm sure, fairly easy to explain. Here's hoping!
If you haven't noticed, none of the Big Software is fun to code - that's why the FOSS equivalents are ragged around the edges at best and outright unimplemented at worst.
Good subtitling helps to underscore just how good a lot of Japanese voice acting is. Bad dubbing doesn't, at all. Don't get me wrong - I'll watch a dub when I can get my hands on it, but I'm not watching one with commercials. It takes me five or six reps of subtitled anime to get what I'll get with one pass on a dub - I can read the titles or watch the action, but my brain can't split itself up into the processes necessary to do both at the same time.
A. I'll buy anything that completely blows me away. It's a very short list and I own most of it, or sold it when I was in dire financial straits. I'm willing to pay a reasonable price for reasonable time - the full season of WHR is worth more than a full season of Naruto for exactly the reasons you've specified.
B. My problem isn't with the dub, it's with the show itself. It's like watching Rob Liefeld try to do anime, and being in the same room with it lowers my sperm count.
C. Yes, and they're somehow managing to make money at it.
All the responses in the thread so far seem to be along the lines of "Fansubs == GOOD" and this is the case to a point... why wait two years to see shitty dub of a series (with commercials) when you can see it now, fansubbed, without?
If anything, fansubs underscore just how fucking awful most dubs are... though a bad fansub can be just as bad, if not worse. (my experience with GITS : SAC hit both extremes - great voice acting, but a few of the episodes I watched had to have been subbed by a fourth grader who failed english)
If anything is "killing anime" in the US, it's one or more of three things:
A. The price of DVDs. Why the fucking hell would I pay 25-30$ for four 22-27 minute episodes, 3-5 minutes of which are credits and intro sequence? This is even more ridiculous with shows like Naruto, which often have many minutes of flashback and shitloads of standing-around-staring-at-each-other.
B. Dragonball. It's a great example of everything that sucks about americanized Anime - overlong credits, overlong intro, overlong "NEXT EPISODE!" overlong "IN THE LAST EPISODE!" and shitloads of nothing happening in between. If you're lucky.
C. The complete gutting / hackjob done on several titles in the process of translating them to "fit" the US market. Who the fuck is going to watch a "cleaned up" series after you've already seen the original, undiluted, unedited version? Editing the series to fit a focus group audience is asinine.
Personally, I dropped my fanboy boner for japanese media a few years ago. I still buy Battle Angel trades, I'll watch the occasional series if it's actually decent (Bebop, Witch Hunter), and I've been waiting patiently for Appleseed V since the 90s.
Haven't seen much of interest actually make it into the US in awhile.
But then, it's been awhile since American comics have had anything interesting to say, either - with Cerebus and Transmetropolitan done, the comic shop is nothing but X-men and merch for whatever anime Fox happens to be running this season. It sucks ass, and I'll be damned if I'm going to spend money on crap.:P
Greyhound from Pittsburgh to Philly : ~75$, ~7 hours.
Amtrack from Pittsburgh to Philly : ~75$, ~7 hours.
Airplane from Pittsburgh to Philly : ~280$, ~7 hours, roughly 2.5-3 of which is a layover in Washington DC.
Airplane from Boston to Philly : ~80$, didn't ask the commuter in question for the time but it was a direct flight, no layovers.
It's cheaper to take the train to Boston and fly to Philly than it is to fly to Philly. And it's in the same goddamned state. It's a four hour drive in a car!
So planes are cheaper and faster IF you're one of those lucky bastards who happens to live in a major city, who happens to be travelling to another (favored) major city.
Linux users are the computing equivalent of car enthusiasts. They want the spoiler, the tricked out stereo, the racing stypes, the hand-tuned carburator (sp), the custom muffler, the racing tires, the bling rims, etc, etc, etc - car enthusiasts crack open a parts catalogue and drool.
Most people only give a shit about their vehicle when it breaks. Most people want to just turn the key and GO. They don't want to have to worry about engine timing or oil pressure or RPMs or torque or rather their car parts are metric or imperial because absolutely NONE of this has ANYTHING to do with running down to the store to get groceries.
The failing of linux is that you've got a bunch of hotrod enthusiasts trying to sell The Last Of The V8 Interceptors to people who really just want a commuter coupe - and these hotrodders just can't see that the rest of the world gets absolutely NO pleasure from fucking with things that should Just Work Already.
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I happened into a TON of A/UX stuff a couple of years ago.
:D
Official long-sleeved t-shirt (tan) with A/UX printed on the sleeves (red). Developer documentation (some of it still shrinkwrapped, most of it in binder format). A WGS95 with a fully functional install of (iirc) 3.1 on a 230 meg hdd.
The userland is an obvious precursour to modern OS X, except the System 7 environment actually ran Mac apps natively, rather than in an emulation wrapper.
I wonder if there's a modern version of Commando?
Until you get a power spike and BLAM! there goes your damned video card (disclaimer : my g5 was smoked this way), maybe.
Oh, and try finding a modernish multihead Mac video card without an ADC jack. That's another damned adapter! My home machine is dual head, both original oldass Apple monitors - so I'm going dvi -> vga -> mac and ADC -> vga -> mac - using a VGA twiddler to adapt an apple connection to an apple connection, go technology!
Grrr.
ADC is nothing new - remember Applevision?* It's the same exact concept. ADC just happens to implement it on newer hardware. Applevision supposedly bound sound in and out, ADB and video into one connector that looked a lot like the european video plugs - the "computer -> applevision" adapters looked like scary little beige octopi.
It amuses me that everything Apple's done over the last eight or so years (aside from the iPod, which is an outgrowth of over endeavours like the VOD boxes, Quicktakes and the Pippen) is stuff they've already done before - we're getting old concepts on modern technology** and everyone thinks that it's New And Awesome.
* I think that's what they called it - but this is Quadra / x100 era here. The funky plug on the 6100, 7100, 8100s that Apple had the good sense to drop for the 604s.
** I have a Workgroup Server 95 running A/UX, the original Apple Unix, sitting in my room. The thing runs either X or a System 7-era MacOS compatible environment, and is just as snappy on a 33mhz processor with 36 megs of RAM as my dual g4 450 with a gig of RAM is running OS X. If not more so. The thing is, imo, easily and obviously a precoursor to the NeXT-with-MacOS-compatability thinger cupertino's been pushing on us the last few years.
I'm going to need a THIRD monitor adapter?
:P
I'm currently using a DVI -> VGA adapter with a VGA -> Mac adapter plugged into it so I can run my 20" Apple-branded trinitron, which I've been using for years.
Some of us can't afford to buy new monitors just because the connectors change.
I have two versions of the OS X q3 executable : 1.31 and 1.3.2.
1.31 is totally stable, and I haven't had any problems with it.
1.3.2 has the plasma gun problem, and I've had a few other issues with it.
Seriously. The last version of Q3A (that I'm aware of, anyway) for OS X has a glitchy, game-crashing plasma gun.
Oh, and the screen dumps I've taken (multihead, radeon9600) are static, as opposed to game content. o.O
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So it's a prettier word for "geek"
... the first REAL challenge the juarezkiddiez have had in years? :-)
Ready, set, go.
Seriously - Apple operating systems run on Apple-approved hardware ONLY, plzkthks. Has been, will be. We're back to roms but this time we know (to some extent, anyway?) what's in the damned things.
If he thinks the gubmint will be able to successfully tax PORN, one of the founding pillars of THE INTERNET, then the D stands for DUMBASS. :P
1. Resize from any side/corner of a window. You could at least drag by side borders in OS 9 - neither border-drag or side/corner resize is an option ins OS X. You use the bottom right corner or you live with it (this sucks for Photoshop).
:P
:P
2. Directories sorted before files. It's not a BIG thing, but I for one like it and wouldn't mind it being at least an option.
3. Windows tells me how big the directory I'm browsing is. Compare to OS X, which tells me how much free space I have on the disk, forcing me to get-info on a directory (or view as a list with "calculate all sizes" on, and be prepared to wait if it's a big directory) to find out how much space it's eating. Given just how big Apple is on the column view, you'd think they'd do something about this.
4. You can Fullscreen apps like IE and Firefox. And by full screen, I mean FULL. SCREEN. None of this dock shit - this functionality alone makes it a hell of a lot easier to use Windows for web kiosks.
I know you're trying to be funny, but.
I have a dual g5 at work, and a powerbook g3/400 at home. The G5 runs X, the pb runs 9, and lemme tell you.
The speed and responsiveness of text rendering (and 2d graphics) on an "ancient" OS on "ancient" hardware is BLOWING AWAY last year's machine on this year's os. Visibly faster in just about every single way that counts.
Yeah, Finder gets faster and faster with every release, but we're on the fifth version (6 counting PB and 7 counting Server) and it's still visibly slower than the Platinum finder at goddamned near EVERYTHING.
Gimme the warp speed text, plz. I'm tired of this shit crawling along just a hair slower than I can type.
...it's a goddamned xterm.
Those have been around for HOW many years now?
I totally, totally hate the OS X finder. It's a living slap-in-the-face to any oldschool Mac user, driving home the point that this isn't MacOS anymore, it's NeXT. Yay.
I use Quicksilver for application launching, though some friends of mine also use it for document handling, etc.
Finder isn't the only reason that Macs are a mess these days, but it certainly adds to the confusion.
Verily, I miss the Platinum Finder. The Aqua Finder is no improvement.
That's the thing that sickens me the most about every Mac user I know who isn't me - they all seem to keep their entire goddamned filesystem on the desktop. Stick something in its Proper Place in the filesystem and they can't find it!
/Users/$username/Documents. I keep ALL of my FCP and DVDSP data on a dedicated hard drive, so the fact that these apps routinely default to where they want me to save things is really annoying.
/Volumes/$drive at /Users/$username/Documents and be done with it.
As hair pulling as this is, applications that tell me where I can put my data piss me off even more. You can't load Office, Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro without the app creating an $app_name Documents folder in
Wouldn't be as much of a pain in the ass if Apple would do for the fstab what they've done with iTunes. Mount
I do use Safari. But it sucks flaming ass for remembering logins and a few other things.
So I end up using both Safari and Firefox, extensively.
I have a 2.2 ghz AMD box on my desk, and a 2x2ghz G5. The AMD has a gig of ram and Win2k, the G5 has 2g ram and OS X 10.4.
Firefox HAULS ASS on the Win32 box. It's visibly slower on OS X - the UI is sluggish, and rendering isn't nearly as snappy, using current versions of both. But mostly, the UI is sluggish.
I'm no coder, but the hows and the whys of it are, I'm sure, fairly easy to explain. Here's hoping!
We offshored it.
Sold it to India and China.
If you haven't noticed, none of the Big Software is fun to code - that's why the FOSS equivalents are ragged around the edges at best and outright unimplemented at worst.
Use a BSD. Stop whining.
:P
Talent and time are the only things holding FOSS back.
I watched most of s1 via LMF, but the last four or five eps came down the pipe from some other team.
"Ass" would be a good description, and a polite one.
LMF, on the other hand, is Pro Grade from what I've seen. And quality work - especially in-frame translation - takes time. Lots of time.
Good subtitling helps to underscore just how good a lot of Japanese voice acting is. Bad dubbing doesn't, at all. Don't get me wrong - I'll watch a dub when I can get my hands on it, but I'm not watching one with commercials. It takes me five or six reps of subtitled anime to get what I'll get with one pass on a dub - I can read the titles or watch the action, but my brain can't split itself up into the processes necessary to do both at the same time.
A. I'll buy anything that completely blows me away. It's a very short list and I own most of it, or sold it when I was in dire financial straits. I'm willing to pay a reasonable price for reasonable time - the full season of WHR is worth more than a full season of Naruto for exactly the reasons you've specified.
B. My problem isn't with the dub, it's with the show itself. It's like watching Rob Liefeld try to do anime, and being in the same room with it lowers my sperm count.
C. Yes, and they're somehow managing to make money at it.
All the responses in the thread so far seem to be along the lines of "Fansubs == GOOD" and this is the case to a point... why wait two years to see shitty dub of a series (with commercials) when you can see it now, fansubbed, without?
:P
If anything, fansubs underscore just how fucking awful most dubs are... though a bad fansub can be just as bad, if not worse. (my experience with GITS : SAC hit both extremes - great voice acting, but a few of the episodes I watched had to have been subbed by a fourth grader who failed english)
If anything is "killing anime" in the US, it's one or more of three things:
A. The price of DVDs. Why the fucking hell would I pay 25-30$ for four 22-27 minute episodes, 3-5 minutes of which are credits and intro sequence? This is even more ridiculous with shows like Naruto, which often have many minutes of flashback and shitloads of standing-around-staring-at-each-other.
B. Dragonball. It's a great example of everything that sucks about americanized Anime - overlong credits, overlong intro, overlong "NEXT EPISODE!" overlong "IN THE LAST EPISODE!" and shitloads of nothing happening in between. If you're lucky.
C. The complete gutting / hackjob done on several titles in the process of translating them to "fit" the US market. Who the fuck is going to watch a "cleaned up" series after you've already seen the original, undiluted, unedited version? Editing the series to fit a focus group audience is asinine.
Personally, I dropped my fanboy boner for japanese media a few years ago. I still buy Battle Angel trades, I'll watch the occasional series if it's actually decent (Bebop, Witch Hunter), and I've been waiting patiently for Appleseed V since the 90s.
Haven't seen much of interest actually make it into the US in awhile.
But then, it's been awhile since American comics have had anything interesting to say, either - with Cerebus and Transmetropolitan done, the comic shop is nothing but X-men and merch for whatever anime Fox happens to be running this season. It sucks ass, and I'll be damned if I'm going to spend money on crap.
The rich have their own commuter planes to get around, and hummers to handle the piece of shit asphalt diarrhea they call "roads" in this country.
They don't see a problem.
Greyhound from Pittsburgh to Philly : ~75$, ~7 hours.
Amtrack from Pittsburgh to Philly : ~75$, ~7 hours.
Airplane from Pittsburgh to Philly : ~280$, ~7 hours, roughly 2.5-3 of which is a layover in Washington DC.
Airplane from Boston to Philly : ~80$, didn't ask the commuter in question for the time but it was a direct flight, no layovers.
It's cheaper to take the train to Boston and fly to Philly than it is to fly to Philly. And it's in the same goddamned state. It's a four hour drive in a car!
So planes are cheaper and faster IF you're one of those lucky bastards who happens to live in a major city, who happens to be travelling to another (favored) major city.
The train, it is comfy.
Linux users are the computing equivalent of car enthusiasts. They want the spoiler, the tricked out stereo, the racing stypes, the hand-tuned carburator (sp), the custom muffler, the racing tires, the bling rims, etc, etc, etc - car enthusiasts crack open a parts catalogue and drool.
Most people only give a shit about their vehicle when it breaks. Most people want to just turn the key and GO. They don't want to have to worry about engine timing or oil pressure or RPMs or torque or rather their car parts are metric or imperial because absolutely NONE of this has ANYTHING to do with running down to the store to get groceries.
The failing of linux is that you've got a bunch of hotrod enthusiasts trying to sell The Last Of The V8 Interceptors to people who really just want a commuter coupe - and these hotrodders just can't see that the rest of the world gets absolutely NO pleasure from fucking with things that should Just Work Already.
You've summed up the first ten episodes, give or take some filler.
Next question!
So was NeXT. Doesn't make the API for making gui apps any less "monolithic" or a pain in the ass.