The previous extent of my knowledge of this subject came from 'Commandos', in which you attempt to blow up a Norwegien heavy water plant to foil the Nazis.
That's the kind of gameplay I'm after. I loved GTA, but I hate linear story lines. If i fail a mission twice, I have no interest in failing again, so get stuck.
But if I could jack a car, drive over to the JrHigh School, sell some crack, steal some kids shoes, and pimp a little, that'd be cool.
Excuse me? Apple is going through a hard time right now in usability?
Are you by chance coming over from OS 9? I could somewhat understand your statement then, but as someone who uses 4 operating systems daily, the Mac strikes me as extremly useable.
It seems to me that the writer was talking about synthesis, ie; starting with atoms & molocules with no handedness, and measuring what you get. I assume Asimov didn't postulate a 'force at a distance' effect so that right or left handedness of the Earth could affect the chemistry in the test tube.
What I don't understand about the original statment is how two forms of a molocule, with the only difference being chirality, could have differing energy levels. Some quantum effect, or what?
I think to actually be effective in the long run, people need to make it known to webmasters that they suck.
Safari shouldn't have to incorprate work-arounds for IE optimized web pages. The 2 times I've investigated Safari rendering problems, they've turned out to be markup errors.
Ok, I'll bite.
Yes. Macs are slow. The ads are meant to sell to user types. As far as crashing goes, yes they used to,or so I hear, but my G4 hasn't crashed in 8 months. Windows sucked just as bad back then too.
You (and this is assuming you have the brains to make an informed, bias free decision), have the right to choose what's right for you. My choice of what's right ranges from Blade servers to Intel/Linux to Onyx's but the Mac is my workstation, and it's staying.
I think there are lots of good reasons why proffesional types could choose Windows over Mac. Price/performance, availability of software, ease of interoperability, etc.
But the adds will never have the pure appeal of the Mac switch adds. "TCO amoritized over the year saved us $$" is not "bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, gone!"
I have an expensive Mac. It strikes me as slow, sometimes. I get annoyed when software comes out for the PC first. But I'm not giving it up for anything.
I entirly agree with you. As the conduit of Unix apps to OS X, fink has a responsibility to follow Unix tradition.
I realize that OS X is not exactly Unix, but I see no reason for/sw to be the default. As a Unix user, this confused the hell out of me when I installed fink, and, to my shame, I was forced to RTFM.
I thought that article would be a great place to direct any developer asking 'what's so great about OS X, anyway?". It shows of some of the best features of Obj-C, the cleanness of Cocoa, and Project Builder.
for anyone interested in visualization, check out Open Scene Graph, a fast maturing LGPL project that is well suited to games. (and science/med/etc.) Almost zero documentation , though, but that'll change.
As another poster said, OS X Server is a different product, but I am a bit suprised that you didn't get the safari update when it came out. I would have thought Apple wouldn't want customers like you to feel left behind.
I'm going to guess you live in a city/state without many asians. I live in Vancouver, where english is now officially a second language, and we have no end of entertaining names
A short selection;
Fuk-Yu resturaunt. (closed down for health violations, they had a meat cutter in the staff bathroom)
Fuk-Ing Imports.
Pho Bich Nigga Resturaunt.
Hehe, I love Vancouver. If you ever visit, Pho Bich Nigga is quite good.
This is really too bad. I was hoping a great NPR (nonphotorealistic) game would come along and spark some changes in how so many programmers write vertex shaders. I'm a big fan of stylistic redering in video games.
I'm going to be a cynical l33t jerk and say; what a stupid question. HTTP and FTP have obvious strengths and weaknesses depending on what you're trying to do with it. Read up on the protocols, make a choice.
I'm not trying to suggest that I wasn't that clueless at one time, just that maybe this isn't a/. caliber question.
Oh well, kudos to the poster for being concerned enough about security to ask around. I'll just shut up now.
I've often wondered if beauty wasn't a universial thing. For example, take flowers. Why do we find them beutiful? Do bees find them 'beutiful'? I dunno.
Anyway, just as long as that robot stays away from my $%#$%#! girlfriend.
Ok. I have a vauge idea what a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is. I understand that this is a device that can be programmed on the chip level. But I still don't understand what this is, really.
Can someone with a bit of know-how point us towards some more info?
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I don't remember this 'Skinnarland' guy, though.
Instead of doing that, I'll just yell 'Code Orange, buy duct tape!', and thereby ensure my reelection.
But if I could jack a car, drive over to the JrHigh School, sell some crack, steal some kids shoes, and pimp a little, that'd be cool.
The parent is not flamebait. Click on the damn link. Slashdotters got fucked over by the editors.
Nice comeback.
Hmmm. I should know better then to correct /.ers with UID's below a thousand.
Are you by chance coming over from OS 9? I could somewhat understand your statement then, but as someone who uses 4 operating systems daily, the Mac strikes me as extremly useable.
OS 9, OTOH, caused me much grief.
What I don't understand about the original statment is how two forms of a molocule, with the only difference being chirality, could have differing energy levels. Some quantum effect, or what?
I very much like your plan. In should be in the Linux Acovadcy FAQ, if it is not.
I agree with all of your points. I find 2b '+1, insightful'. I still like em, though.
Safari shouldn't have to incorprate work-arounds for IE optimized web pages. The 2 times I've investigated Safari rendering problems, they've turned out to be markup errors.
Yes. Macs are slow. The ads are meant to sell to user types. As far as crashing goes, yes they used to,or so I hear, but my G4 hasn't crashed in 8 months. Windows sucked just as bad back then too.
You (and this is assuming you have the brains to make an informed, bias free decision), have the right to choose what's right for you. My choice of what's right ranges from Blade servers to Intel/Linux to Onyx's but the Mac is my workstation, and it's staying.
People _feel_ about their Macs.
17 years older, not 17 years old.
But the adds will never have the pure appeal of the Mac switch adds. "TCO amoritized over the year saved us $$" is not "bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, gone!"
I have an expensive Mac. It strikes me as slow, sometimes. I get annoyed when software comes out for the PC first. But I'm not giving it up for anything.
I realize that OS X is not exactly Unix, but I see no reason for /sw to be the default. As a Unix user, this confused the hell out of me when I installed fink, and, to my shame, I was forced to RTFM.
for anyone interested in visualization, check out Open Scene Graph, a fast maturing LGPL project that is well suited to games. (and science/med/etc.) Almost zero documentation , though, but that'll change.
As another poster said, OS X Server is a different product, but I am a bit suprised that you didn't get the safari update when it came out. I would have thought Apple wouldn't want customers like you to feel left behind.
A short selection;
Fuk-Yu resturaunt. (closed down for health violations, they had a meat cutter in the staff bathroom)
Fuk-Ing Imports.
Pho Bich Nigga Resturaunt.
Hehe, I love Vancouver. If you ever visit, Pho Bich Nigga is quite good.
This is really too bad. I was hoping a great NPR (nonphotorealistic) game would come along and spark some changes in how so many programmers write vertex shaders. I'm a big fan of stylistic redering in video games.
I'm not trying to suggest that I wasn't that clueless at one time, just that maybe this isn't a /. caliber question.
Oh well, kudos to the poster for being concerned enough about security to ask around. I'll just shut up now.
Oh yeah; FTP.
Exellent work, Mr Anonymous Coward. Certainly good enough for me. I'm sticking your url in a safari bug report right now.
The NV2 chipset does pretty damn well in practice, from my experience.
Anyway, just as long as that robot stays away from my $%#$%#! girlfriend.
Can someone with a bit of know-how point us towards some more info?