Minor note in relation to this. I noticed that the Sin City DVD does *not* have any of your standard warnings on it. No FBI warning, no Interpol warning not even in french, nothing. It shows the Dimension logo and goes straight to the menu. Playing the movie goes straight to the movie.
Press Apple-Shift-4, which changes your cursor to a cross-hairs, this lets you drag a box on any part of the screen and the contents are dumped to the desktop as a screenshot.
But! then press spacebar and the cursor changes to an icon of a camera, now click on the window you want to take a screenshot of, and the screenshot will be of that window only, pixel-perfect to the border.
Ah yes, I can see why this truly is the OS for grandmothers everywhere. It's just so intuitive.
How? Oh, it allows parts of the page to be updated without a refresh. How interesting. Perhaps you could go a little more in-depth? No?
Well, one of the things we use AJAX for is to prevent two people from modifying the same story. AJAX hits the server every 10 seconds with a basic "My name is Bob and I'm modifying story 197342". Then if the user's browser crashes or if they just close the window, the story will auto-unlock after 10 seconds.
This doesn't really "change everything!" but it's just one more thing that makes things run smoothly.
Same reason you can't see AIM buddies on your yahoo IM tool. Apple *created* their own network (iTunes). It's theirs to use. No other company has the RIGHT to inherently have their products work with with it.
I'd call bullshit. There's even a reverse engineering exception in the DMCA for interoberability purposes.
However, Apple doesn't have to make it easy for 3rd parties to make interoperable software.
That doesn't mean anything if every *regular* user is in the sudoers list. "sudo sh" is even better than having a root password, since regular users don't tend to have very good passwords.
And also keep in mind that Safari gives that annoying "this file contains an application" warning whenever you download an executable, so it would take even more social engineering to actually run any code.
Not really, since safari gives that warning for *every* zip... so the users ignore it. Same problem happened with Windows. Users were trained to just go ahead and click OK.
Mac users are being trained to just go ahead and click OK for everything now, and they're already trained to punch in their password to install or run software without even thinking about it.
Likelyhood is that Sony manfacters the Blu-ray drives in house and it won't cost more than adding the DVD to the PS2 and they would likely be able to leverage economies of scale in the long run(which were very expensive at the time of the PS2 launch).
What's with this rewriting of history? The PS2 came out in 2000. At the time, I owned a $150 DVD player (and a $60 DVDRom drive for my PC). DVD players had been around since 1997. DVDs were already taking off by the time the PS2 came out, blockbuster had tons of shelf space devoted to DVDs.
When the PS3 comes out it will be the *first* blu-ray player, blockbuster won't have any blu-ray movies on the shelf.
That and the jump from VHS to DVD was huge.. while the jump from DVD to blu-ray isn't even noticable for 80% of america.
Don't look impossible to me. The fact that no-one on that thread seems to know what UTF-16 is explains why they're having so much trouble with a relatively simple format.
You want a hard file format? Try Quark. SPIFSPOCSPIFSPIT, this means something to quark... but damned if anyone knows what.
(I'm not talking about xpresstags either, that's a cakewalk compared to quark's binary format)
But prejudice against those who may have gotten them for other reasons?
There's only so much room on a resume (one page). You put the best stuff on there. If you have certs on your resume, it's because you don't have anything better to put there.
everybody will be writing software compatible with both platforms with no extra effort.
Yeah, because if PPC Linux has shown us anything, it's that architecture changes are trivial. Oh wait. No it doesn't. It's not as simple as a recompile. Minor bugs crop up when you take a piece of software and compile it on a different architecture, even if the host OS doesn't change.
XCode can't magically correct any endian assumptions your code makes. Your apps will need to be tested on both platforms.
Coming from a Mac / { 68k, ppc } background, I can't understand why you people put up with BIOS.
You know, to boot multiple OSes. On older G3's (and certainly anything before that) you have to run Linux from inside MacOS, because they can't boot anything but MacOS.
Oh yeah, that's awful. Being able to stroke selections is easier but still isn't very intuitive.
If I were a gimp programmer, I'd add a line tool which has a pullout for a circle tool.
To be honest, for what the majority of users need, Inkscape is better suited (the same goes for Illustrator versus Photoshop)
Funny enough, the best paint program I've ever used was a program called Platinum Paint for the Apple IIgs. Second place is Painter, back when the software came in a paint can.
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Is it possible to write this function using nothing but reigsters and the memory occupied by the string? Anyone care to give it a go? There, reverse a string in-place using only registers.
Minor note in relation to this. I noticed that the Sin City DVD does *not* have any of your standard warnings on it. No FBI warning, no Interpol warning not even in french, nothing. It shows the Dimension logo and goes straight to the menu. Playing the movie goes straight to the movie.
The only reason DRM is being implemented is because you can give someone a copy and still have it yourself.
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I'll remember that next time someone asks me for a light.
"No! This is my fire! Get your own!"
In the PS2 Burnout 3, the load times were frustrating
I don't know how long the load times were on the PS2, but the PSP load times are definitely *worse* than the load times on the xbox version.
1GB = 1024 MB = 1048576 KB! Apparently one more unit of measurement isn't that easy.
No
1GB = 1000MB = 1000000 KB
1GiB = 1024MiB = 1048576 KiB..
Kilo means 1000. Just because memory manufacturers were forced to use powers of 2 doesn't mean the definition of "kilo/mega/giga" got changed.
Press Apple-Shift-4, which changes your cursor to a cross-hairs, this lets you drag a box on any part of the screen and the contents are dumped to the desktop as a screenshot.
But! then press spacebar and the cursor changes to an icon of a camera, now click on the window you want to take a screenshot of, and the screenshot will be of that window only, pixel-perfect to the border.
Ah yes, I can see why this truly is the OS for grandmothers everywhere. It's just so intuitive.
How? Oh, it allows parts of the page to be updated without a refresh. How interesting. Perhaps you could go a little more in-depth? No?
Well, one of the things we use AJAX for is to prevent two people from modifying the same story. AJAX hits the server every 10 seconds with a basic "My name is Bob and I'm modifying story 197342". Then if the user's browser crashes or if they just close the window, the story will auto-unlock after 10 seconds.
This doesn't really "change everything!" but it's just one more thing that makes things run smoothly.
Same reason you can't see AIM buddies on your yahoo IM tool. Apple *created* their own network (iTunes). It's theirs to use. No other company has the RIGHT to inherently have their products work with with it.
I'd call bullshit. There's even a reverse engineering exception in the DMCA for interoberability purposes.
However, Apple doesn't have to make it easy for 3rd parties to make interoperable software.
the combination of iMovie and iDVD is simply awesome. Maybe it isn't enough for pros or even semi-pros
That's an understatement. iMovie can't even deal with clips longer than 9 minutes long.
You're right, it does look inside zips, but it does give the warning for *all* tar files.
no root password at all
That doesn't mean anything if every *regular* user is in the sudoers list. "sudo sh" is even better than having a root password, since regular users don't tend to have very good passwords.
And also keep in mind that Safari gives that annoying "this file contains an application" warning whenever you download an executable, so it would take even more social engineering to actually run any code.
Not really, since safari gives that warning for *every* zip... so the users ignore it. Same problem happened with Windows. Users were trained to just go ahead and click OK.
Mac users are being trained to just go ahead and click OK for everything now, and they're already trained to punch in their password to install or run software without even thinking about it.
No, but that's a good thing.
Aqua buttons and input boxes can't be styled.
Just the same we see a Desktop folder when we open a Nautilus window.
Same with OSX. The Desktop is the first icon in my home folder.
Burnout Legends and NFS Most Wanted will also be available for the DS.
And one of the "games" you listed is actually a movie.
8 bit Zelda was rather cartoonish
Not even "rather", it was. Here's some artwork from the Original Legend of Zelda manual.
The irony is the people who claim that WW was too cartoony and "kiddy", are obviously not even old enough to have played the original.
Likelyhood is that Sony manfacters the Blu-ray drives in house and it won't cost more than adding the DVD to the PS2 and they would likely be able to leverage economies of scale in the long run(which were very expensive at the time of the PS2 launch).
What's with this rewriting of history? The PS2 came out in 2000. At the time, I owned a $150 DVD player (and a $60 DVDRom drive for my PC). DVD players had been around since 1997. DVDs were already taking off by the time the PS2 came out, blockbuster had tons of shelf space devoted to DVDs.
When the PS3 comes out it will be the *first* blu-ray player, blockbuster won't have any blu-ray movies on the shelf.
That and the jump from VHS to DVD was huge.. while the jump from DVD to blu-ray isn't even noticable for 80% of america.
Aparently neither does Apple. Since OSX Server comes with MySQL, not Postgres.
Don't look impossible to me. The fact that no-one on that thread seems to know what UTF-16 is explains why they're having so much trouble with a relatively simple format.
You want a hard file format? Try Quark. SPIFSPOCSPIFSPIT, this means something to quark... but damned if anyone knows what.
(I'm not talking about xpresstags either, that's a cakewalk compared to quark's binary format)
It'll take about 10 minutes for this to get cracked.
Why? It's a public/private key pair. Those aren't exactly hackable... if so, then GPG and SSH would have some serious security issues.
A really neat trick though would be using a sanity engine to actually inspire dread IN THE GAMER, instead of just to the gamer's character onscreen.
That's exactly what Eternal Darkness (the game we're talking about here) does.
As your character becomes insane, strange things happen to the gamer.
Your TV appears to turn off, then comes back on 5 seconds later.
The sound mutes (and displays a green "MUTE" on the screen).
The gamecube reboots (at least it appears to).
You go to save your game and instead it deletes all your saves.
Your character shoots himself and dies while reloading your weapon.
A message pops up while you're getting attacked that says "Controller in port A is unplugged" and you can't move.
You'll enter a room, and fight a bunch of dudes, and then the screen will flash and you'll be outside the room as if you had never entered it.
The people talking about ROTT or Nethack have obviously never played Eternal Darkness.
But prejudice against those who may have gotten them for other reasons?
There's only so much room on a resume (one page). You put the best stuff on there. If you have certs on your resume, it's because you don't have anything better to put there.
everybody will be writing software compatible with both platforms with no extra effort.
Yeah, because if PPC Linux has shown us anything, it's that architecture changes are trivial. Oh wait. No it doesn't. It's not as simple as a recompile. Minor bugs crop up when you take a piece of software and compile it on a different architecture, even if the host OS doesn't change.
XCode can't magically correct any endian assumptions your code makes. Your apps will need to be tested on both platforms.
Coming from a Mac / { 68k, ppc } background, I can't understand why you people put up with BIOS.
You know, to boot multiple OSes. On older G3's (and certainly anything before that) you have to run Linux from inside MacOS, because they can't boot anything but MacOS.
Oh yeah, that's awful. Being able to stroke selections is easier but still isn't very intuitive.
If I were a gimp programmer, I'd add a line tool which has a pullout for a circle tool.
To be honest, for what the majority of users need, Inkscape is better suited (the same goes for Illustrator versus Photoshop)
Funny enough, the best paint program I've ever used was a program called Platinum Paint for the Apple IIgs. Second place is Painter, back when the software came in a paint can.