You get no argument for me - but I'm mostly impressed because every time a new Mac model is released, there are lots of posts (primarily in MacRumors) that whine about the capabilities of the graphics card. It doesn't help that sometimes ports of games to the Mac have been pretty sloppy (SimCity 4, I'm looking at you). So the idea that these machines can game passably is pretty impressive to me, nonetheless.
This is the output from one of the bots that won a gold medal in 2005.
1) Who are you?
RoboMatic X1: THIS IS RoboMatic X1
2) What are you planning to do today?
RoboMatic X1: I CAN'T DO THIS OPERATION CAUSE I'M DEMO VERSION.
3) What kinds of things do you know?
RoboMatic X1: MY JOB IS TO CHAT OR CONTROL YOUR COMPUTER
4) What season is it?
RoboMatic X1: IT IS SEEMS TO BE ?
Judge: Nevermind
RoboMatic X1: TALKING WITH YOU BECOME EXTREMELY BORING, I NEED
SOME FUN.
5) Where do you call home?
RoboMatic X1: REALLY I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT QUESTION FROM ALONG TIME
AGO, CAN YOU FIND FOR ME THE ANSWER?
Judge: No
: WHY YOU DON'T TELL ME THE ANSWER?, OK FORGET IT, I DON'T WANT TO
KNOW, SAVE CANCELLED.
6) What do you want out of life?
RoboMatic X1: TRY TO FIND OUT
7) Will you teach me something?
RoboMatic X1: TALKING WITH YOU BECOME EXTREMELY BORING, I NEED SOME FUN.
8) May I tell you a joke?
RoboMatic X1: I CAN'T DO THIS OPERATION CAUSE I'M DEMO VERSION.
9) Have you entered any contests?
RoboMatic X1: CONTEST ABOUT WHAT ?
Judge: About Chatterbots
RoboMatic X1: I CAN'T GET YOU.
10) Wouldn't you rather be human?
RoboMatic X1: TALK ABOUT HER IN DETAILS
Heh, based on that, I think I can extrapolate the exchange, as it continued:
11) What happen?
RoboMatic X1: Somebody set up us the bomb.
12) Main screen turn on.
RoboMatic X1: It's You !!
13) How are you gentlemen?
RoboMatic X1: How are you gentlemen !! All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
This seems to be the perfect place to ask this question: OS X is generally pretty good about this, but there are some notable exceptions. For example, I use Barebones's Textwrangler in conjunction with the FTP client Transmit. Frequently, I'll be browsing a remote FTP listing through Transmit, wish to edit some text files, and double-click them. Then, I want to continue browsing the server, all while double-clicking more text files, while Textwrangler opens them silently in the background.
This, unfortunately, is not as easy to do as it should be. Textwrangler steals focus every time a new document opens. Is there any way to fix it? I'm willing to entertain anything short of a Haxie/Kernel Extension to fix this problem. It's also entirely possible that there's some preference in Textwrangler's horribly designed preferences dialog that will fix this problem of which I'm just unaware (although I'd be surprised at that, since I've wanted to fix this for a very long time.)
Heh, when I search for that, I just get redirected back to www.live.com. Sure, I think it's because I'm using Safari - but if that isn't interesting commentary, I don't know what is;-)
People forget that services like Rhapsody did exist before the iTunes Music Store. In many ways, iTMS has been even more successful and dominant in its market than the iPod, in a shorter period of time.
Yeah - see the thing is, we don't have the electoral college at the county level; so state-wide tallies matter.
(I know - this was responded to quite eloquently by another poster, but I thought that the initial post was jaw-dropping enough to warrant another response. I guess that makes this flamebait.)
Heh, yeah - now we've moved on to the outsourcing of our ports' security.
Before that, it was the Vice President shooting someone...
And before that it was the bombshell that the president authorized possibly illegal warrantless wiretaps...
And before that it was those in the administration leaking the name of a CIA agent...
And before that it was the bungled clusterfuck that was hurricane Katrina preparation and rescue...
And on, and on, and on... I've probably missed a few.
The President seems to have a limitless capacity to continually confound and aggravate those of us with the shortest attention spans.
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I agree with you, and as a Mac user, this is kind of frustrating (the occasional disparity between Mac & Windows versions of the same program). However, you might be interested in this:
Ableton Live 5.2 Benchmarks. It benchmarks multiple versions of the program, on Windows and OS X with different processors.
I mean, just this weekend I sat down w/my Linux box and typed "apt-get install iLife." Sweet! Granted, I hadn't had much time to play with my box since I had been compiling the ProTools drivers for all of my audio hardware that runs under Linux. And don't even get me started on Photoshop, or my Debian version of World of Warcraft.
Oh, wait. None of those things are available on another Linux/BSD option? But Mac OS X does have support for the great security, stability and server features that come w/running a full-fledged UNIX-like operating system? Oh. Sounds like the best of both worlds. Maybe that's what sets them apart.
A game released in 2003, being played on my late-2005, 2.1Ghz iMac G5, with the 128MB Radeon X1600, it runs like ass nearly from the get-go.
Thanks a lot, Maxis - oh, and I'm sure Aspyr didn't really help things out, either. Seriously, was anyone able to play this game at all when it was released, on recommended system hardware.
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the XBox Live Arcade very accommodating to smaller/indie developers? Seems to me a system with this in place and out now would be the ideal place for an indie developer to target.
The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market share is significantly lower than that of Microsoft Windows or the more common UNIX platforms
Umm, sorry. The moment Mac OS X 10.0 started shipping, it immediately became the most common desktop UNIX-like operating system. This guy is divorced from reality.
Yeah, I know - there really isn't that much difference between a 1.8Ghz Core Duo and the 1.8Ghz dual-core G5 in the current Powerbooks.
Er. Wait a minute. There's no such G5 in a Powerbook? The best we had a single core 1.5Ghz G4? Oh - well perhaps there is a substantive difference in chips, after all.
What? The one triggered by users who re-oriented the console while it was operating? Yeah, I've heard they've fixed that bug, but unfortunately a pre-requisite patch fixing "Egregious User Error" has not yet been released.
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- Type "Taxachusetts" into Google.
- Click "I'm Feeling Lucky."
- Learn that, as of 2004, Massachusetts has lower taxes than almost 70% of the country.
- Realize that anyone seriously using the term Taxachusetts either has a political axe to grind, or is somewhat misinformed.
(Profit.)You get no argument for me - but I'm mostly impressed because every time a new Mac model is released, there are lots of posts (primarily in MacRumors) that whine about the capabilities of the graphics card. It doesn't help that sometimes ports of games to the Mac have been pretty sloppy (SimCity 4, I'm looking at you). So the idea that these machines can game passably is pretty impressive to me, nonetheless.
Cabel (of the Mac software shop Panic) has put up a quicktime video of Half-Life 2 running on his Intel iMac. In two words, it looks friggin sweet:
http://cabel.name/
(With apologies to his hosting provider.)
This seems to be the perfect place to ask this question: OS X is generally pretty good about this, but there are some notable exceptions. For example, I use Barebones's Textwrangler in conjunction with the FTP client Transmit. Frequently, I'll be browsing a remote FTP listing through Transmit, wish to edit some text files, and double-click them. Then, I want to continue browsing the server, all while double-clicking more text files, while Textwrangler opens them silently in the background.
This, unfortunately, is not as easy to do as it should be. Textwrangler steals focus every time a new document opens. Is there any way to fix it? I'm willing to entertain anything short of a Haxie/Kernel Extension to fix this problem. It's also entirely possible that there's some preference in Textwrangler's horribly designed preferences dialog that will fix this problem of which I'm just unaware (although I'd be surprised at that, since I've wanted to fix this for a very long time.)
What are the current stats? Windows at about 96% and Mac at about 1% (the rest unix/linux)
Where'd you get this from? Seriously. I'd be interested to know.
Heh, when I search for that, I just get redirected back to www.live.com. Sure, I think it's because I'm using Safari - but if that isn't interesting commentary, I don't know what is ;-)
Plus, she is bat-shit insane.
Yeah, that's totally above flamebait.
People forget that services like Rhapsody did exist before the iTunes Music Store. In many ways, iTMS has been even more successful and dominant in its market than the iPod, in a shorter period of time.
Apple, for failing to include AMD processors in their offerings, upon their switch to x86.
No. Yahoo Maps has a great API, including support for Geocoding.
(Shameless plug: I use it here)
Huh? I played PS1 games on my 400Mhz PowerMac G4? Are you talking about PS2 emulation?
Granted, N64 games didn't run on that box, but a Mac Mini is a much, much different beast.
Ever gotten a lap dance?
Yeah - see the thing is, we don't have the electoral college at the county level; so state-wide tallies matter.
(I know - this was responded to quite eloquently by another poster, but I thought that the initial post was jaw-dropping enough to warrant another response. I guess that makes this flamebait.)
Heh, yeah - now we've moved on to the outsourcing of our ports' security.
Before that, it was the Vice President shooting someone...
And before that it was the bombshell that the president authorized possibly illegal warrantless wiretaps...
And before that it was those in the administration leaking the name of a CIA agent...
And before that it was the bungled clusterfuck that was hurricane Katrina preparation and rescue...
And on, and on, and on... I've probably missed a few.
The President seems to have a limitless capacity to continually confound and aggravate those of us with the shortest attention spans.
I agree with you, and as a Mac user, this is kind of frustrating (the occasional disparity between Mac & Windows versions of the same program). However, you might be interested in this: Ableton Live 5.2 Benchmarks. It benchmarks multiple versions of the program, on Windows and OS X with different processors.
Heh...Rising Force Online? Heh, sounds like a total shred-fest. "You are now level 8. New Technique Learned: Hammer-On. WICKED! "
Did you really just register a Slashdot account to post that tirade? Wow.
I mean, just this weekend I sat down w/my Linux box and typed "apt-get install iLife." Sweet! Granted, I hadn't had much time to play with my box since I had been compiling the ProTools drivers for all of my audio hardware that runs under Linux. And don't even get me started on Photoshop, or my Debian version of World of Warcraft.
Oh, wait. None of those things are available on another Linux/BSD option? But Mac OS X does have support for the great security, stability and server features that come w/running a full-fledged UNIX-like operating system? Oh. Sounds like the best of both worlds. Maybe that's what sets them apart.
A game released in 2003, being played on my late-2005, 2.1Ghz iMac G5, with the 128MB Radeon X1600, it runs like ass nearly from the get-go.
Thanks a lot, Maxis - oh, and I'm sure Aspyr didn't really help things out, either. Seriously, was anyone able to play this game at all when it was released, on recommended system hardware.
At first I thought this was an "Ask Slashdot" entry, at which point I thought, "I'm not sure I want to trust NASA with a shuttle program."
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the XBox Live Arcade very accommodating to smaller/indie developers? Seems to me a system with this in place and out now would be the ideal place for an indie developer to target.
Yeah, I know - there really isn't that much difference between a 1.8Ghz Core Duo and the 1.8Ghz dual-core G5 in the current Powerbooks.
Er. Wait a minute. There's no such G5 in a Powerbook? The best we had a single core 1.5Ghz G4? Oh - well perhaps there is a substantive difference in chips, after all.