10.1 -> 10.8: you can't, mostly because the processors changed with 10.4/10.5, and PPC got dropped in 10.6. However, had it not, the sequence goes like this: insert 10.6 upgrade disk, upgrade to 10.6, run app store, upgrade to 10.9. That's it, and yes, it would work, barring the hardware shift.
on Intel macs, going from 10.4->10.9 works exactly like that, unless your hardware isn't 64-bit EFI.
Debian? sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get distupgrade about 4 times? I took a machine from Ubuntu 7 to Ubuntu 13 that way with a few hiccups (mostly networking driver and netatalk related).
Just saying, it is at least doable, barring actual hardware-related reasons. With XP->7/8, it *should* be doable, but they made a decision to not support upgrading without deleting all of your files in the process.
I loved Sundog, had actually bought the apple II version, and was so immeasurably frustrated trying to make a backup of the disk when I was 15. Now, it all makes sense. Can't post proof, of course, but I still have it in storage with my apple IIe.:)
What it also did was pull a huge number of non-MMO players into the mix...Players who've picked up the basic skills, and maxed out a half dozen characters, and are now bored to tears with WoW's pointless and repetitive endgame grindfest. For all that it's different from what came before, it's still pretty typical, and lessons learned in WoW will transfer quickly to other MMOs.
That, if anything, will work against all MMOs to come, much as it did with EQ1 before it.
Now that you've worked your way through one mmo, and figured out the genre is basically a hack-and-slash grindfest, what's the incentive to pay for another one, especially if the new one is a derivative of the old?
"The first time I saw the trailer for this movie, my jaw hit the floor. Nobody makes live action "Cartoons" that look like this. I guess that makes me believe there is no way the movie can be good."
There were several warning signs, but the most obvious is the existence of the Mach 6. This is proof that the Wachowski brothers do not "get it", yet again; we'd be going to watch Speed and the powerful Mach 5, only to have it get scrapped mid-movie and replaced with a Mach 6 of the Wachowskis' design... no, no I don't think so.
"That makes no sense. If a copy of Office 2008 for OSX installed Windows Media Player to fight off iTunes then slashdot would melt from the outrage. When Apple does it, slashdotters bend over bankwards to rationalize it."
a: Office X, Office 2004, and Office 2008 all *do* install Windows Media Player on OS X.
b: Apple Software Update for Windows gives people the *option* to install Quicktime, iTunes, and Safari. You can uncheck the boxes, or just quit the damn thing, and they don't get installed. This is a far cry from the objections over IE being tied to the Windows TCP/IP stack.
c: Monopolies are not illegal. Predatory monopolies are. Microsoft was ruled a predatory monopoly under the Clinton administration, and then left unpunished by the Bush administration. Again, a different matter entirely.
... tripe on Slashdot. People go on and on about how "It has all been downhill since TNG" and it has all been Berman's fault, etc.
Well, Berman, Brannon Braga, and their in-house "staff" writers, anyhow.
For one thing, Roddenberry died midway through TNG. Berman was basically the man at the helm for what was argueable the best portion of the series, the last 3 seasons. Even before that, he played a very, very large part in TNG. So to say that "Berman is Death" of everything, than to praise TNG, borders on the edge of ridiculousness.
I found seasons 1 and 2 barely watchable, 3-4(well, half of 5th too) to be good, and (half of)5th, and all of 6th and 7th to be completely unwatchable. Seasons 1-4 had outside writing talent for a majority of the episodes; it was after the staff writers took over that we got most of the horrible "and now Beverly Crusher gets to have a love affair with a ghost!" episodes.
For another, DS9 (the first series run soley by Berman) was actually very good (once it got going - the first season or two were quite.. icky).
DS9 was also heavily ripping off Babylon 5, while competing with it. That inspired a lot.
Voyager, well..... what can you say. An amazing capability for a plot line, but it descended into fodder. Basically, the same thing with Enterprise.
The Voyager itself was, literally, blown off course in the badlands of space. This was in the first episode, and set the tone for finding Amelia Earhart, devolving into amphibians that were allergic to water, and neelix's lungs. Voyager was abject shit of the first order. Enterprise was unwatchable for the first three seasons, with moments of amusement.
So from *my* point of view, he is batting 0.500 - a decent average the way I look at it.
From my point of view, he's taken something I grew up loving, and rammed it into the ground, while having marital relations with Gene Roddenberry's corpse. To each their own.
Aside from all this - you people seem to believe that the whole series lives and dies by Berman's word. Shouldn't some of the blame be put on the writers? The writers are the ones coming up with the same old crap over and over again.
The "writers" are his, and Brannon Braga's, fault. They're "staff writers" that were cycled in by the pair of them, to the exclusion of outside scripts. Thus, saying "Berman did it" can be accurate.
There are too many shows that I like that are not being brought over from Japan, either quickly, or at all.
Extreme example: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. My favorite anime, bar none. Time from release (1985) to US release? Nineteen *years*.
It's a case of "without anime clubs / fansubbing, I would never have gotten to see what has become my favorite show."
Anime clubs, and later, fansubbers, allow a broader spectrum of shows to make the leap from Japan to other countries than the for-profit corporations did, and still do.
That said, please note that I signed up for the preorder of Z Gundam, the first day it was announced, and waited through all the delays in order to buy it.
This brings up my second point; the US release from commercial companies are often altered, unfavorably.
In the case of Zeta Gundam, the opening and closing themes have been removed, and replaced with incidental music from the series, and sound effects have been inserted at "appropriate" moments during the title sequences. This is quite a jarring change, and should have been mentioned by the releasing company, at the very least.
So, anyhow, fansubbing is frequently the only way to get unaltered episodes of shows from Japan.
One other point that you've missed; they can't count the actual votes in those counties that show the largest statistical deviation from their exit polls, as the machines used have no paper trail.
Say it with me: the only records in those counties, other than the exit polls, are in the machines believed to be fraudulent by design.
The report is going to be used to discredit government adoption of Linux, by way of discrediting the GPL. My opinion is based on the report's change to rule #9 in the definition of open source.
The report version is shorter with no explanation, and actually uses different phrasing: "License must not contaminate other software".
Sound familiar?
"Go ahead, keep on bittorrenting Doom III, you wankers. You're killing gaming as we know it. A few more years and there will BE no more Splinter Cells or Painkillers or Max Paynes or Far Crys any other games with godly single player modes but no online play."
Yeah! Just like how all the people who pirated Doom 1 and Doom 2 made damn sure there wouldn't be a Doom 3! Bastards!
Curious, any examples of a *good* game that was actually killed by piracy? Most of the games who've "had their sales impacted by pirates" tend to either be games nobody would buy, or games nobody SHOULD buy.
Things like Deus Ex, Doom 1&2, Quake... They sold huge, and were pirated massively. Things like Daikatana were also massively pirated, but didn't do so well. I'd say that piracy helps defend the wallet from crap...
but that's just madness.
Something in me is compelled once again to say:
You're Satan, aren't you.
Microsoft hit the top due to predatory practices, including theft, bribery, and coercion. It was proven in court that it is a predatory monopoly, abusing it's current monopoly power, so I can't attribute those initial crimes to "wanting to deliver good products to the masses".
A more accurate statement would be:
"Microsoft has *definitely* done things in an *illegal* way, to prop up its *inferior quality* products and *limit consumer choice*."
get a copy of the corp por (er, corporate professional that is) version of windows.
No activation, licensed to "as many users as your company can stomach", etc.
Remember, every time you pay for Microsoft software, you're promoting pure evil. When you pirate Microsoft software, it's much more like you're whacking off to it.
Skipped a step:
"Word, developed on, and for, x86, by the developer who also wrote the operating system running on the PC's. Ported by MBU to OSX."
Ported by the MBU to OS9 as Word 2001, then ported by the MBU from OS9 to Carbon, with almost no changes other than interface tweaks. (as evidence, try working with a file that has greater than 31 characters in the name.)
I quite agree, this article is FUD.
Summary:
- Premiere is about the slowest video editing program on the Mac. Carbon, singlethreaded, not really MP aware.
- Word on the mac is far slower than Word on the pc. Again, see above, plus to make it funnier Microsoft based Word X on Word 2001, right down to leaving in the 31-character filename limit. Not exactly an optimized program.
- and Q3... Their numbers on the dual G5 are low. I have one; and they're either using the wrong version of Q3 for X (i.e. generic vs. altivec, or the 1.31 revision instead of 1.32b), or they're flat out lying. Interesting that their tests don't see much difference between the 256MB and 128MB cards on the PC side, as I remember Q3 being very graphics-card bound. Here it seems to mean that +128MB=+3PFS.
As far as I know, and this is mostly from people talking about the star trek series all ending at year 7, the standard actors' contract includes pay schedules (raises, etc) covering 7 years, and then they have to renegotiate.
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10.1 -> 10.8: you can't, mostly because the processors changed with 10.4/10.5, and PPC got dropped in 10.6. However, had it not, the sequence goes like this: insert 10.6 upgrade disk, upgrade to 10.6, run app store, upgrade to 10.9. That's it, and yes, it would work, barring the hardware shift. on Intel macs, going from 10.4->10.9 works exactly like that, unless your hardware isn't 64-bit EFI.
Debian? sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get distupgrade about 4 times? I took a machine from Ubuntu 7 to Ubuntu 13 that way with a few hiccups (mostly networking driver and netatalk related).
Just saying, it is at least doable, barring actual hardware-related reasons. With XP->7/8, it *should* be doable, but they made a decision to not support upgrading without deleting all of your files in the process.
Also, if you click on it, you get sent here: http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/.
I loved Sundog, had actually bought the apple II version, and was so immeasurably frustrated trying to make a backup of the disk when I was 15. Now, it all makes sense. Can't post proof, of course, but I still have it in storage with my apple IIe. :)
Alternately, we have, and found we didn't like it, especially in a level-and-gear dependent genre like RPGs.
For my PvP, I prefer first-person shooters, or console games.
That, if anything, will work against all MMOs to come, much as it did with EQ1 before it.
Now that you've worked your way through one mmo, and figured out the genre is basically a hack-and-slash grindfest, what's the incentive to pay for another one, especially if the new one is a derivative of the old?
There were several warning signs, but the most obvious is the existence of the Mach 6. This is proof that the Wachowski brothers do not "get it", yet again; we'd be going to watch Speed and the powerful Mach 5, only to have it get scrapped mid-movie and replaced with a Mach 6 of the Wachowskis' design... no, no I don't think so.
a: Office X, Office 2004, and Office 2008 all *do* install Windows Media Player on OS X.
b: Apple Software Update for Windows gives people the *option* to install Quicktime, iTunes, and Safari. You can uncheck the boxes, or just quit the damn thing, and they don't get installed. This is a far cry from the objections over IE being tied to the Windows TCP/IP stack.
c: Monopolies are not illegal. Predatory monopolies are. Microsoft was ruled a predatory monopoly under the Clinton administration, and then left unpunished by the Bush administration. Again, a different matter entirely.
Well, Berman, Brannon Braga, and their in-house "staff" writers, anyhow.
For one thing, Roddenberry died midway through TNG. Berman was basically the man at the helm for what was argueable the best portion of the series, the last 3 seasons. Even before that, he played a very, very large part in TNG. So to say that "Berman is Death" of everything, than to praise TNG, borders on the edge of ridiculousness.
I found seasons 1 and 2 barely watchable, 3-4(well, half of 5th too) to be good, and (half of)5th, and all of 6th and 7th to be completely unwatchable. Seasons 1-4 had outside writing talent for a majority of the episodes; it was after the staff writers took over that we got most of the horrible "and now Beverly Crusher gets to have a love affair with a ghost!" episodes.
For another, DS9 (the first series run soley by Berman) was actually very good (once it got going - the first season or two were quite.. icky).
DS9 was also heavily ripping off Babylon 5, while competing with it. That inspired a lot.
Voyager, well..... what can you say. An amazing capability for a plot line, but it descended into fodder. Basically, the same thing with Enterprise.
The Voyager itself was, literally, blown off course in the badlands of space. This was in the first episode, and set the tone for finding Amelia Earhart, devolving into amphibians that were allergic to water, and neelix's lungs. Voyager was abject shit of the first order. Enterprise was unwatchable for the first three seasons, with moments of amusement.
So from *my* point of view, he is batting 0.500 - a decent average the way I look at it.
From my point of view, he's taken something I grew up loving, and rammed it into the ground, while having marital relations with Gene Roddenberry's corpse. To each their own.
Aside from all this - you people seem to believe that the whole series lives and dies by Berman's word. Shouldn't some of the blame be put on the writers? The writers are the ones coming up with the same old crap over and over again.
The "writers" are his, and Brannon Braga's, fault. They're "staff writers" that were cycled in by the pair of them, to the exclusion of outside scripts. Thus, saying "Berman did it" can be accurate.
Extreme example: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. My favorite anime, bar none. Time from release (1985) to US release? Nineteen *years*.
It's a case of "without anime clubs / fansubbing, I would never have gotten to see what has become my favorite show."
Anime clubs, and later, fansubbers, allow a broader spectrum of shows to make the leap from Japan to other countries than the for-profit corporations did, and still do.
That said, please note that I signed up for the preorder of Z Gundam, the first day it was announced, and waited through all the delays in order to buy it.
This brings up my second point; the US release from commercial companies are often altered, unfavorably.
In the case of Zeta Gundam, the opening and closing themes have been removed, and replaced with incidental music from the series, and sound effects have been inserted at "appropriate" moments during the title sequences. This is quite a jarring change, and should have been mentioned by the releasing company, at the very least.
So, anyhow, fansubbing is frequently the only way to get unaltered episodes of shows from Japan.
One other point that you've missed; they can't count the actual votes in those counties that show the largest statistical deviation from their exit polls, as the machines used have no paper trail.
Say it with me: the only records in those counties, other than the exit polls, are in the machines believed to be fraudulent by design.
The original #9 on Mr. Perens' website("The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software.") is longer, and clearly GPL friendly; he goes out of his way to state that the GPL is in fact compliant with #9.
The report version is shorter with no explanation, and actually uses different phrasing: "License must not contaminate other software".
Sound familiar?
Yeah! Just like how all the people who pirated Doom 1 and Doom 2 made damn sure there wouldn't be a Doom 3! Bastards!
Curious, any examples of a *good* game that was actually killed by piracy? Most of the games who've "had their sales impacted by pirates" tend to either be games nobody would buy, or games nobody SHOULD buy.
Things like Deus Ex, Doom 1&2, Quake... They sold huge, and were pirated massively. Things like Daikatana were also massively pirated, but didn't do so well. I'd say that piracy helps defend the wallet from crap...
but that's just madness.
ooooo.
can you say "Linear Seat"?
You're Satan, aren't you.
Microsoft hit the top due to predatory practices, including theft, bribery, and coercion. It was proven in court that it is a predatory monopoly, abusing it's current monopoly power, so I can't attribute those initial crimes to "wanting to deliver good products to the masses".
A more accurate statement would be:
"Microsoft has *definitely* done things in an *illegal* way, to prop up its *inferior quality* products and *limit consumer choice*."
You're Satan, aren't you.
get a copy of the corp por (er, corporate professional that is) version of windows. No activation, licensed to "as many users as your company can stomach", etc. Remember, every time you pay for Microsoft software, you're promoting pure evil. When you pirate Microsoft software, it's much more like you're whacking off to it.
Um... because windows came with the driver for the chipset in question?
What do I win?
No, Michael Palin sold John Cleese the parrot.
According to earlier reports, the 3 chips in the XBox2 will be the same chips that IBM is making for the PS3.
The "Cell". Go look it up.
that the franchise wasn't killed before Voyager came out.
Skipped a step: "Word, developed on, and for, x86, by the developer who also wrote the operating system running on the PC's. Ported by MBU to OSX." Ported by the MBU to OS9 as Word 2001, then ported by the MBU from OS9 to Carbon, with almost no changes other than interface tweaks. (as evidence, try working with a file that has greater than 31 characters in the name.) I quite agree, this article is FUD.
Summary: - Premiere is about the slowest video editing program on the Mac. Carbon, singlethreaded, not really MP aware. - Word on the mac is far slower than Word on the pc. Again, see above, plus to make it funnier Microsoft based Word X on Word 2001, right down to leaving in the 31-character filename limit. Not exactly an optimized program. - and Q3... Their numbers on the dual G5 are low. I have one; and they're either using the wrong version of Q3 for X (i.e. generic vs. altivec, or the 1.31 revision instead of 1.32b), or they're flat out lying. Interesting that their tests don't see much difference between the 256MB and 128MB cards on the PC side, as I remember Q3 being very graphics-card bound. Here it seems to mean that +128MB=+3PFS.
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Just checking.
but this story came from the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS initially. /.?
How did this make it on
So TNG ends at year 7, DS9 ends at year 7...
don't know how much of that is true, YMMV.