The Apple site doesn't list all of the games available for the platform, so it's not really a valid place to garner the information needed to draw the conclusions that the author attempts to make.
Aside from that, it would be stupid for Apple to take on the responsibility of porting games to their own platform. This is something that should be left to the third party companies like Aspyr and MacPlay. As if Apple doesn't have enough responsibility with their own software development and hardware design. If they took over the porting job too, many would complain that they were just closing their doors to the third party guys anyhow.
Which is, of course, a valid observation. I just have to believe that most are choosing to ignore OS 9 when making those types of generalized statements. Don't you?
They could be much clearer in their statements, but then they'd be as verbose as say, myself. Or you perhaps.
Good point. I don't so much find life amazing, as I do the continued depth of the ignorance of people. I usually expect more and then I am amazed that people fall far short of my expectations. I suppose that I should just take it for granted that many of those here are generally just idiots that like to speak about things that they have no personal experience with.
It is an interesting behavior that comes from this wonderful global community experiment. Those that feel that they have something to say and perceive that what they say is of value, regardless of their inexperience and lack of knowledge on any given number of various subjects.
The thing that I find most disturbing about it is that this type of behavior in day to day life is becoming more and more rampant. I just don't know if it is intensifying due to the internet and communities like this one, or if it was always there and it is a natural progression towards a society of know-it-alls.
It would seem that we're just sliding down the sharp edge of the razor blade together, either way.
You are, of course, aware that the old viruses, etc were for OS 9 and Apple is using OS X now. The two are not remotely close to each other. That and OS X is safe from being affected by viruses in the emulation environment of OS 9 (Classic).
This has always been the complaint about Apple and EVERY OTHER pc manufacturer out there. "Moore's Law isn't fair. Get over it, because it hasn't slowed them down yet.
This model has been expected since March, when the news was spreading that Apple bought the 60 GB drives and didn't release a 60 GB iPod.
Aside from that, the price point is higher and this wouldn't have entered into the spectrum for many.
The game is great. I find it amazing that all the naysayers on this board, as usual, haven't tried it and are complaining about it without having done so. Typical and pitiful.
First off, I highly doubt that Gran Turismo 4[japanese] is going to be this holidays top seller for the holiday season for Sony. I'll go out on a limb here and predict that the top seller will be GTA: San Andreas.
With that fairly obvious prediction aside, Gran Turismo 4 will be a big seller, but as a December 14 release, Polyphony Digital still has time to work the bugs out of the online side before release. This seems to me to be an inadequate explanation as to why the title isn't going to include the online functionality.
First, Tiger has Dashboard, not Dashbar. If anything, Apple's Dashboard is similar to Konfabulator which was out long before MS conceived of ShortHorn. On top of that, the concept for the Dashboard has been in the Apple OS since back in OS 6, the concept of an extensible desktop interface that would allow various controls of different components was simply called "Control Panel" back then, it was extensible, but not web enabled, so it wasn't an html based program. The guy that claims to have created Konfabulator used to work for Apple. If you want to discuss the possibility of stealing you should know the history better.
So, the new version of OS X being 64-bit isn't as significant as going from a 16-bit GUI to a 32-bit GUI? Who are you trying to kid here? Sorry, but your interpretation that the upgrades to OS X are like Windows service packs is completely wrong too.
Besides all that, Apple charges $130 for the fully implemented OS, not $300 like MS does. You can get more than two full updates of OS X for the retail price of one professional update to Windows software.
Another thing, 2000 was not a release to the general public, that was what ME was supposedly for. And it fell far short of all expectations, like most other releases of Windows.
SP2's new security feature is a firewall. Something that OS X has had since 10.1.
Moving from X to 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 added over 100 new features to the OS with each revision and 10.4 is supposed to do the same. Microsoft can't say anything remotely close to that so don't try and make pitiful comparisons like that.
Each one of these OS updates have been vastly more than mere patches, which come out from Apple on a regular basis between OS revisions, 10.3.6 is right around the corner in just over a years time and each of the six minor updates has included security patches and new features as well.
The one "new" feature that is supposedly going to remain in Longhorn is the MS duplication of the Aqua interface that Apple included with X since day one. No comparison at all, unless you just have no clue. Sorry fireangel, it seems you are clueless.
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The Apple site doesn't list all of the games available for the platform, so it's not really a valid place to garner the information needed to draw the conclusions that the author attempts to make.
Aside from that, it would be stupid for Apple to take on the responsibility of porting games to their own platform. This is something that should be left to the third party companies like Aspyr and MacPlay. As if Apple doesn't have enough responsibility with their own software development and hardware design. If they took over the porting job too, many would complain that they were just closing their doors to the third party guys anyhow.
Not exactly. Next time you might want to look it up first.
Which is, of course, a valid observation. I just have to believe that most are choosing to ignore OS 9 when making those types of generalized statements. Don't you?
They could be much clearer in their statements, but then they'd be as verbose as say, myself. Or you perhaps.
Good point. I don't so much find life amazing, as I do the continued depth of the ignorance of people. I usually expect more and then I am amazed that people fall far short of my expectations. I suppose that I should just take it for granted that many of those here are generally just idiots that like to speak about things that they have no personal experience with.
It is an interesting behavior that comes from this wonderful global community experiment. Those that feel that they have something to say and perceive that what they say is of value, regardless of their inexperience and lack of knowledge on any given number of various subjects.
The thing that I find most disturbing about it is that this type of behavior in day to day life is becoming more and more rampant. I just don't know if it is intensifying due to the internet and communities like this one, or if it was always there and it is a natural progression towards a society of know-it-alls.
It would seem that we're just sliding down the sharp edge of the razor blade together, either way.
You are, of course, aware that the old viruses, etc were for OS 9 and Apple is using OS X now. The two are not remotely close to each other. That and OS X is safe from being affected by viruses in the emulation environment of OS 9 (Classic).
This has always been the complaint about Apple and EVERY OTHER pc manufacturer out there. "Moore's Law isn't fair. Get over it, because it hasn't slowed them down yet.
This model has been expected since March, when the news was spreading that Apple bought the 60 GB drives and didn't release a 60 GB iPod.
Aside from that, the price point is higher and this wouldn't have entered into the spectrum for many.
The game is great. I find it amazing that all the naysayers on this board, as usual, haven't tried it and are complaining about it without having done so. Typical and pitiful.
Just like the Linux fanboys that have modding capability.
Which is why you chose to use the AC name, so they don't mod your ignorant ass down...
overestimation, not oversetimation... whoops
First off, I highly doubt that Gran Turismo 4[japanese] is going to be this holidays top seller for the holiday season for Sony. I'll go out on a limb here and predict that the top seller will be GTA: San Andreas.
With that fairly obvious prediction aside, Gran Turismo 4 will be a big seller, but as a December 14 release, Polyphony Digital still has time to work the bugs out of the online side before release. This seems to me to be an inadequate explanation as to why the title isn't going to include the online functionality.
OK, sorry. I misunderstood your point. It seemed that you were implying the opposite. :)
First, Tiger has Dashboard, not Dashbar. If anything, Apple's Dashboard is similar to Konfabulator which was out long before MS conceived of ShortHorn. On top of that, the concept for the Dashboard has been in the Apple OS since back in OS 6, the concept of an extensible desktop interface that would allow various controls of different components was simply called "Control Panel" back then, it was extensible, but not web enabled, so it wasn't an html based program. The guy that claims to have created Konfabulator used to work for Apple. If you want to discuss the possibility of stealing you should know the history better.
So, the new version of OS X being 64-bit isn't as significant as going from a 16-bit GUI to a 32-bit GUI? Who are you trying to kid here? Sorry, but your interpretation that the upgrades to OS X are like Windows service packs is completely wrong too.
Besides all that, Apple charges $130 for the fully implemented OS, not $300 like MS does. You can get more than two full updates of OS X for the retail price of one professional update to Windows software.
Another thing, 2000 was not a release to the general public, that was what ME was supposedly for. And it fell far short of all expectations, like most other releases of Windows.
No, it's not true. Apple ships a single proc 1.8 GHz tower and the iMacs and the eMac are all single proc machines.
Not true. There's a single proc 1.8GHz tower and the iMacs and the eMac. That and re-engineering is hardly a hack.
Thanks, I did not know that.
At the time, the size was the given reason.
It was given away for free on CD at the Apple Stores. I think that Micro Center and CompUSA also offered it too.
The charge of $19.95 was the shipping cost.
Sorry, the firewall was in 10.2, not 10.1.
SP2's new security feature is a firewall. Something that OS X has had since 10.1.
Moving from X to 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 added over 100 new features to the OS with each revision and 10.4 is supposed to do the same. Microsoft can't say anything remotely close to that so don't try and make pitiful comparisons like that.
Each one of these OS updates have been vastly more than mere patches, which come out from Apple on a regular basis between OS revisions, 10.3.6 is right around the corner in just over a years time and each of the six minor updates has included security patches and new features as well.
The list of features that MS has had to pull out of Longhorn to get it to market, in possibly under five years, is long. Most of the features that were going to set it ahead of XP have already been stripped out just so they can bring it to market. The biggest, most important change to Longhorn, WinFS, has been taken out too now. Meanwhile Gates smiles and the company blames the customers, the developers and the retailers for their short-failings with "SHORTHORN". On top of all of that, you still won't see it released to the general public, in a non-server format, until 2008.
The one "new" feature that is supposedly going to remain in Longhorn is the MS duplication of the Aqua interface that Apple included with X since day one. No comparison at all, unless you just have no clue. Sorry fireangel, it seems you are clueless.
It also gets you access to the hardware at a discounted price.
So, $300, $400, $500 and $600 respectively as the models go up from the single proc 1.8 up to the DP 2.5.
That's ok. Come out of the corner, you're still welcome at the party...
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Don't be sad.
Sorry, you're wrong... :(