There were two, actually. MacFoxes, in color, made with Director and photos of a couple of porn stars based on the earlier MacPlaymate, b&w, but had more costume and sex toy options.
how do I know this? a priest said it was a good thing to study...
Hollywood Video, and Blockbuster Entertainment, have both been doing this without marking the films as having been edited, for years.
Example: Local (San Diego) Hollywood video, 3 years ago. I haven't seen anything but the TV version (read: with ad breaks) of Bridge on the River Kwai in my entire life, so I decide to rent it.
They managed to edit the movie down by about 40 minutes; completely destroying the film. For example, in this edit, we see Sir Alec Guinness go into the hotbox... and then, next scene, he's following Japanese orders. We never see him get out of the box, and stand unbowed. We don't see the next half hour of the movie... no indication of editing on the box.
So, anyhow...
1: it's good that CleanFlicks is letting people know their tapes are edited, rather than, like Hwood and BB, letting people rent "The Killer", only to discover that every single instance of injury or blood on-screen has been blipped out(that was example #2 of crippling a movie via editing.).
2: Due to their use of DeCSS to copy their DVDs for editing, followed by non-personal use of their copied title, they are contributing to the MPAA's case against fair use. This is a bad thing.
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William Gibson failed to warn us just how much moving into the corporate-controlled cyberpunk era would suck, before metal really could be better than meat.
1. Long filename display. Now, if you wave over the file being abbreviated, you get a tooltip-style overlay showing the full filename.
2. Same as 1. above. File dialogs in MacOS have also never been resortable on the fly, I wouldn't expect them. File lists from the finder, yes, but dialogs, no.
3. Yes, it's a Carbon limitation. Check out Omniweb and so forth for examples of non-31-character-limited apps.
4. UNIX systems don't show files that begin their name with a '.' by default, if that's what you meant. The '.hidden' file restricts that list further. If you want to see those files, you can always empty the '.hidden' file, or use a Terminal window, where '.hidden' doesn't apply.
5. It's UNIX, yes. Carbon and Classic apps will still generate line breaks the Classic way.
(Also, there was a Star Wars book that chronicled the first duel between Vader and Skywalker published in 1978 or 1979 titled The Mind's Eye, by Alan Dean Foster. I have a copy back home, but I've never seen it in the US. That story takes place at some point between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back; it explored some interesting backstory issues but didn't hint of Vader being Skywalker's father.)
Splinter of the Mind's Eye, actually.
Not bad, takes place before anyone outside of Lucas himself knew that Vader was Luke's father, so Mr. Foster probably wasn't told:)
You're not listening.
The current crop of vid cards is still accelerated, you just won't get it all rolled up into one "Quartz Extreme" openGL based channel unless you bought your Yikes G4 tower a Radeon card sometime in the past 2-3 years.
The current iBook won't get "Quartz Extreme", but will still run it's accelerated openGL, etc.
The only laptops that will get QE (no, it's not QX, don't go there) will be the current tiBooks and later.
Your iBook was using a G3, that's probably why you thought it was so slow under X.x. Altivec seems to speed things up nicely for OS X on a G4.
"Arguing on the internet makes you stupid. Still, stupid is as stupid does."
IE5 for OS X *is* a patchwork port running in a compatibility layer, if you want to call Carbon a compatibility layer.
Had they built it from the "ground up" for OS X, it would have been better served doing it in Cocoa, rather than depending on OS 9.x API calls.
Ever notice that IE5 on X is stuck with 31-character filenames, just like it's OS 9 counterpart?
re:"And the fact that apple laptops still refuse to have a servicable 3 button mouse like any good Unix system should leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This one button stuff irks me something fierce."
>>mandatory "go buy a $9 3-button scrollwheel mouse then, it's supported without adding extra software as long as it's usb." comment.
or a kensington turboball, that's actually much better than it should be, and better for laptopiness. $39 though.
... the person calling for more warning labels on games.
<sarcasm>
I can picture it now... 14-year-old walks into [MegaComputerStoreOfTheFuture!], picks up the box for Everquest:PlanesOfWhippedCreamAndJello, and screams in horror at the black-and-white sticker that says "Warning, excessive play may exacerbate your insanity.", flinging it back to the shelf.
Oh yes, obviously warning labels are the perfect solution.</sarcasm>
One more example of an idiot shooting himself. That's all it is.
At the last Fan Faire, the Verant guys were asked this exact question... and the answer was a flat "No." (possibly with the trailer "it's a directX game, we're not porting it to OpenGL")
Nice of them to be succinct, at least.:P
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Did you even read our posts? We were talking about NWN, off-topic, admittedly, but that had nothing to do with Lineage.
"You guys claiming yourself geeks are just little children trying to impress everyone with your knowledge you probably got some Gaming sites review of Lineage."
Nah. We're little children that really wanted to like Neverwinter Nights, until they took the keys to the kingdom and made them windows-only.
NWN looked good, until they announced they were dropping the MacOS and Linux toolsets. There went my reason to buy the damn thing.
NWN is also not a "massive" morpg, just a morpg. This is arguably better than the massive approach, but is a whole different animal.
And, the v3 rules are completely different than v1 and v2... in substance. The names are the same, which messes me up more than I care to think about.:)
NWN recently decided to not implement languages and differing vision systems, as well, which made me somewhat surprised and annoyed. (on the vision particularly, considering that they'd implemented it successfully in BG1 and BG2)
"How do you hurt a man who's lost everything? Give him back something broken."
" (Maybe If Apple released TiBook's with 3 mouse buttons I'd at least have an option;) "
You say that as though you can stand to use a trackpad for longer than 10 minutes.
Addressing your points:
The task switcher: OS 9.x: if click-and-drag bugs you when switching apps, then you can "tear off" the application menu, which makes it become a "toolbar" window, all apps visible at once, floating nicely. OS X, as you say, has the Dock.
The Finder: OS X uses a single window, generally, with a back button. Both 9 and X allow you to command-click the window title, giving you a popup list of that window's parents.
Context menus: yep, it's weird. but click-and-hold can also activate contexual menus, notably on Dock items (X) and links in web browsers(9 and X).
Keyboard navigation: Handled by the Universal Access control panel in both 9 and X, allows for full keyboard access to all OS features (for example, allowing you to move the pointer with the numeric keypad, and adding extra keyboard shortcuts).
The menubar and Dock take up considerably less than 1/3 of my screen, especially when it's set higher than 800x600, and when Dock hiding is turned on, you reclaim all of it's real estate until you need it. I tend to keep the Dock visible, smallish, and with magnification turned on. YMMV.
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how do I know this? a priest said it was a good thing to study...
Example: Local (San Diego) Hollywood video, 3 years ago. I haven't seen anything but the TV version (read: with ad breaks) of Bridge on the River Kwai in my entire life, so I decide to rent it.
They managed to edit the movie down by about 40 minutes; completely destroying the film. For example, in this edit, we see Sir Alec Guinness go into the hotbox... and then, next scene, he's following Japanese orders. We never see him get out of the box, and stand unbowed. We don't see the next half hour of the movie... no indication of editing on the box.
So, anyhow...
1: it's good that CleanFlicks is letting people know their tapes are edited, rather than, like Hwood and BB, letting people rent "The Killer", only to discover that every single instance of injury or blood on-screen has been blipped out(that was example #2 of crippling a movie via editing.).
2: Due to their use of DeCSS to copy their DVDs for editing, followed by non-personal use of their copied title, they are contributing to the MPAA's case against fair use. This is a bad thing.
---
William Gibson failed to warn us just how much moving into the corporate-controlled cyberpunk era would suck, before metal really could be better than meat.
2. Same as 1. above. File dialogs in MacOS have also never been resortable on the fly, I wouldn't expect them. File lists from the finder, yes, but dialogs, no.
3. Yes, it's a Carbon limitation. Check out Omniweb and so forth for examples of non-31-character-limited apps.
4. UNIX systems don't show files that begin their name with a '.' by default, if that's what you meant. The '.hidden' file restricts that list further. If you want to see those files, you can always empty the '.hidden' file, or use a Terminal window, where '.hidden' doesn't apply.
5. It's UNIX, yes. Carbon and Classic apps will still generate line breaks the Classic way.
6. Until lpd goes through IOKit, probably not.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye, actually.
Not bad, takes place before anyone outside of Lucas himself knew that Vader was Luke's father, so Mr. Foster probably wasn't told
The current crop of vid cards is still accelerated, you just won't get it all rolled up into one "Quartz Extreme" openGL based channel unless you bought your Yikes G4 tower a Radeon card sometime in the past 2-3 years.
The current iBook won't get "Quartz Extreme", but will still run it's accelerated openGL, etc.
The only laptops that will get QE (no, it's not QX, don't go there) will be the current tiBooks and later.
Your iBook was using a G3, that's probably why you thought it was so slow under X.x. Altivec seems to speed things up nicely for OS X on a G4.
"Arguing on the internet makes you stupid. Still, stupid is as stupid does."
IE5 for OS X *is* a patchwork port running in a compatibility layer, if you want to call Carbon a compatibility layer.
Had they built it from the "ground up" for OS X, it would have been better served doing it in Cocoa, rather than depending on OS 9.x API calls.
Ever notice that IE5 on X is stuck with 31-character filenames, just like it's OS 9 counterpart?
>>mandatory "go buy a $9 3-button scrollwheel mouse then, it's supported without adding extra software as long as it's usb." comment.
or a kensington turboball, that's actually much better than it should be, and better for laptopiness. $39 though.
<sarcasm> I can picture it now... 14-year-old walks into [MegaComputerStoreOfTheFuture!], picks up the box for Everquest:PlanesOfWhippedCreamAndJello, and screams in horror at the black-and-white sticker that says "Warning, excessive play may exacerbate your insanity.", flinging it back to the shelf.
Oh yes, obviously warning labels are the perfect solution.</sarcasm>
One more example of an idiot shooting himself. That's all it is.
But, neither is copyright itself.
...isn't Con
Nice of them to be succinct, at least.:P
Oh, and Tribunal, btw.
"Bite me. It's fun!"
Did you even read our posts? We were talking about NWN, off-topic, admittedly, but that had nothing to do with Lineage.
"You guys claiming yourself geeks are just little children trying to impress everyone with your knowledge you probably got some Gaming sites review of Lineage."
Nah. We're little children that really wanted to like Neverwinter Nights, until they took the keys to the kingdom and made them windows-only.
"Bite me. It's fun!"
NWN looked good, until they announced they were dropping the MacOS and Linux toolsets. There went my reason to buy the damn thing.
NWN is also not a "massive" morpg, just a morpg. This is arguably better than the massive approach, but is a whole different animal.
And, the v3 rules are completely different than v1 and v2... in substance. The names are the same, which messes me up more than I care to think about. :)
NWN recently decided to not implement languages and differing vision systems, as well, which made me somewhat surprised and annoyed. (on the vision particularly, considering that they'd implemented it successfully in BG1 and BG2)
"How do you hurt a man who's lost everything? Give him back something broken."
" (Maybe If Apple released TiBook's with 3 mouse buttons I'd at least have an option ;) "
You say that as though you can stand to use a trackpad for longer than 10 minutes.
The task switcher: OS 9.x: if click-and-drag bugs you when switching apps, then you can "tear off" the application menu, which makes it become a "toolbar" window, all apps visible at once, floating nicely. OS X, as you say, has the Dock.
The Finder: OS X uses a single window, generally, with a back button. Both 9 and X allow you to command-click the window title, giving you a popup list of that window's parents.
Context menus: yep, it's weird. but click-and-hold can also activate contexual menus, notably on Dock items (X) and links in web browsers(9 and X).
Keyboard navigation: Handled by the Universal Access control panel in both 9 and X, allows for full keyboard access to all OS features (for example, allowing you to move the pointer with the numeric keypad, and adding extra keyboard shortcuts).
The menubar and Dock take up considerably less than 1/3 of my screen, especially when it's set higher than 800x600, and when Dock hiding is turned on, you reclaim all of it's real estate until you need it. I tend to keep the Dock visible, smallish, and with magnification turned on. YMMV.
Research is key.