Cost.
I consider games a poor value compared to novels or movies. If video games were $20 versus the $60-$70 they are now, I would buy more and pirate less.
I only shell out for video games that have a superb multiplayer experience that allows for hours and hours and hours of gameplay.
Wrong again. If geek cred is so important, Apple would've made Apple TV a much better product, with DivX/Xvid support out of the box. But they haven't and they won't. Geek cred means very little to Apple.
Gamers are a much, much larger market than geeks and Apple has never made the Mac a game-friendly or game developer-friendly platform. They don't give a crap about geeks or gamers.
Why is chair-throwing and desk-tossing so popular with CEOs? I hear this all the time. Harvey Weinstein of Miramax throws chairs, another guy at Fox flips desks, and there are countless others.. WTF is wrong with these asshats?
Has anyone read the Ars Technica review of Tiger by John Siracusa?
Launchd
For Tiger, Apple created launchd: one launch daemon to rule them all. Launchd does the job of all of the existing program launching mechanisms, and does it in a way that puts the least possible burden on the programs that it launches. Processes spawned by launchd don't have to worry about "daemonizing" themselves, checking for dependencies, or relaunching or keeping communication handles alive in the case of a crash.
Launchd can launch programs in response to any of the events listed earlier, and it can do so on behalf of the system or an individual user. It will discover dependencies on its own and launch programs in parallel when possible. This is essential for fast system startup. Mac OS X's older startup items system did the same thing, but it had to be explicitly told the dependencies.
Launchd supports a messaging protocol to answer questions like, "How many users are connected to this daemon?" and "Have you shut down yet?" Program shutdown is another example of an area where "The Unix Way" is usually deemed "good enough" despite obvious deficiencies. Traditionally, Unix services are shut down by sending a signal to the process, waiting a little while, and then sending a more harsh signal just in case the service refused to shut down. This is barbaric, but necessary because there's no standardized messaging system for Unix daemons. Launchd recognized the need and filled it.
Apple has developed launchd as an open source project that it hopes will be adopted by the wider Unix community. To the average Unix hacker, launchd probably looks like a reinvention of the wheel. I think it addresses a problem the Unix community doesn't even know that it has. In this way it's much like Mac OS X itself. There was "Unix on the desktop," and then there was Mac OS X. You'd think that alone would have been a big enough wake-up call.
If I were working on a Unix-based operating system, I'd be borrowing ideas and code from Apple like there's no tomorrow. Apple has certainly been smart enough to pull in the opposite direction, basing a huge part of its OS (particular its server OS) on open source Unix projects. Apple has returned the favor by contributing to many of those projects: FreeBSD, gcc, KHTML/KJS, etc. When Apple comes calling with their own open source Unix creations, I think it's foolish not to pay attention.
Anyway, enough preaching. What launchd means to Mac OS X is that all the preexisting program launch facilities will slowly be migrated to launchd. This won't happen overnight, or perhaps not even in the next few years, but the groundwork has been laid. There are also plans to extend launchd to handle device events (e.g., plugging in a camera) and to further standardize not just the protocol but the contents of service messages.
How much "radiation" do other electronic devices--iPods, CRTs, TVs, laptops, etc--emit compared to cellphones?
In other words, if the FDA and WHO are mildly worried about the possibility of cellphones causing cancer, how do other electronic devices rank in terms of potential (and yet, unproven) risk?
"The computer in each Mars Exploration Rover runs with a 32-bit Rad 6000 microprocessor, a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC chip used in some models of Macintosh computers, operating at a speed of 20 million instructions per second. Onboard memory includes 128 megabytes of random access memory, augmented by 256 megabytes of flash memory and smaller amounts of other non-volatile memory, which allows the system to retain data even without power."
I read somewhere today (but can't find the link now) that the record companies get 80 cents of every 99 cents. Apple and the artist split the remaining 19 cents.
Okay, I see what you mean. In iTunes, you would have to add "No lyrics" to the comment fields of those songs (select all of them and 'get info' to change them).
Submit your criticisms as feedback and maybe Apple will implement them in a future release.
iTunes has smart playlists. Lots of customization is possible.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/smartplaylists.html
A new website has sprung up for sharing smart playlists for iTunes:
http://smartplaylists.com/
Myth I: The Fallen Lords - the first time I heard the thundering footsteps of an approaching Trow in the Bagrada level (I think).
Aliens vs Predator: playing as a marine scared the crap out of me.
Zork I and II were just plain cool.
Deus Ex.
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Cost. I consider games a poor value compared to novels or movies. If video games were $20 versus the $60-$70 they are now, I would buy more and pirate less. I only shell out for video games that have a superb multiplayer experience that allows for hours and hours and hours of gameplay.
Wrong again. If geek cred is so important, Apple would've made Apple TV a much better product, with DivX/Xvid support out of the box. But they haven't and they won't. Geek cred means very little to Apple. Gamers are a much, much larger market than geeks and Apple has never made the Mac a game-friendly or game developer-friendly platform. They don't give a crap about geeks or gamers.
It's not rendering properly in Firefox for the Mac either. I'm seeing letters squished together.
Why is chair-throwing and desk-tossing so popular with CEOs? I hear this all the time. Harvey Weinstein of Miramax throws chairs, another guy at Fox flips desks, and there are countless others.. WTF is wrong with these asshats?
Wow, that was exceedingly lame.
Here's the url for the article:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.arsHas anyone read the Ars Technica review of Tiger by John Siracusa?
Launchd
For Tiger, Apple created launchd: one launch daemon to rule them all. Launchd does the job of all of the existing program launching mechanisms, and does it in a way that puts the least possible burden on the programs that it launches. Processes spawned by launchd don't have to worry about "daemonizing" themselves, checking for dependencies, or relaunching or keeping communication handles alive in the case of a crash.
Launchd can launch programs in response to any of the events listed earlier, and it can do so on behalf of the system or an individual user. It will discover dependencies on its own and launch programs in parallel when possible. This is essential for fast system startup. Mac OS X's older startup items system did the same thing, but it had to be explicitly told the dependencies.
Launchd supports a messaging protocol to answer questions like, "How many users are connected to this daemon?" and "Have you shut down yet?" Program shutdown is another example of an area where "The Unix Way" is usually deemed "good enough" despite obvious deficiencies. Traditionally, Unix services are shut down by sending a signal to the process, waiting a little while, and then sending a more harsh signal just in case the service refused to shut down. This is barbaric, but necessary because there's no standardized messaging system for Unix daemons. Launchd recognized the need and filled it.
Apple has developed launchd as an open source project that it hopes will be adopted by the wider Unix community. To the average Unix hacker, launchd probably looks like a reinvention of the wheel. I think it addresses a problem the Unix community doesn't even know that it has. In this way it's much like Mac OS X itself. There was "Unix on the desktop," and then there was Mac OS X. You'd think that alone would have been a big enough wake-up call.
If I were working on a Unix-based operating system, I'd be borrowing ideas and code from Apple like there's no tomorrow. Apple has certainly been smart enough to pull in the opposite direction, basing a huge part of its OS (particular its server OS) on open source Unix projects. Apple has returned the favor by contributing to many of those projects: FreeBSD, gcc, KHTML/KJS, etc. When Apple comes calling with their own open source Unix creations, I think it's foolish not to pay attention.
Anyway, enough preaching. What launchd means to Mac OS X is that all the preexisting program launch facilities will slowly be migrated to launchd. This won't happen overnight, or perhaps not even in the next few years, but the groundwork has been laid. There are also plans to extend launchd to handle device events (e.g., plugging in a camera) and to further standardize not just the protocol but the contents of service messages.
How do you solicit new business? Ad in the paper? Yellow pages? Flyers under windshield wipers?
No, it's a religion. I found God and it's Mac OS X. We need an inquisition to deal with these heretics. :P
Why the f**k is this only for Internet Explorer?
How much "radiation" do other electronic devices--iPods, CRTs, TVs, laptops, etc--emit compared to cellphones?
In other words, if the FDA and WHO are mildly worried about the possibility of cellphones causing cancer, how do other electronic devices rank in terms of potential (and yet, unproven) risk?
Cool. The rover is powered by a PowerPC chip:
"The computer in each Mars Exploration Rover runs with a 32-bit Rad 6000 microprocessor, a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC chip used in some models of Macintosh computers, operating at a speed of 20 million instructions per second. Onboard memory includes 128 megabytes of random access memory, augmented by 256 megabytes of flash memory and smaller amounts of other non-volatile memory, which allows the system to retain data even without power."
I read somewhere today (but can't find the link now) that the record companies get 80 cents of every 99 cents. Apple and the artist split the remaining 19 cents.
Okay, I see what you mean. In iTunes, you would have to add "No lyrics" to the comment fields of those songs (select all of them and 'get info' to change them).
Submit your criticisms as feedback and maybe Apple will implement them in a future release.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html
iTunes has smart playlists. Lots of customization is possible. http://www.apple.com/itunes/smartplaylists.html A new website has sprung up for sharing smart playlists for iTunes: http://smartplaylists.com/
The QT plugin for Ogg files is a sourceforge project.
Couldn't Apple have just added encryption to iTunes streaming?
Myth I: The Fallen Lords - the first time I heard the thundering footsteps of an approaching Trow in the Bagrada level (I think). Aliens vs Predator: playing as a marine scared the crap out of me. Zork I and II were just plain cool. Deus Ex.