One fan over here. No driving game since has given me quite the excitement of building my own track. Usually a straight one with a ginormous jump at the end with the explicit goal of trying to jump the fence.
The loops, the jumps. Man, I'm pretty sure this one game inspired the Gorillaz 19 - 2000 video. (And game which you can play on their site).
The austronaut himself calls it a podcast (whether techincally correct since it's no RSS-feed attached to it is up for debate):
"At any rate I will close this very brief first podcast from space with a greeting to all Earthings and a thank you for your interest and support. Whether you support the space program or not, you're learning from it."
The keyword here is learning. It's what some particular kind of posters here on Slashdot never do. And in this case moderators too.
Whoa. His list of possible application areas reads like a list of widgets:
Time of day; News (with a boolean query data base); Stock Market (as per what we are already doing); Soap Opera Condensations; A guide to local TV programs (what's on at 9:00PM?, any westerns tonight?); Message forwarding and distribution; Fax transmission (special case of message: the bits are interpreted pictorially); Weather Travel Info; Phone directory; Local, area or national business directory; Apple program distribution channel; Apple update distribution channel; Access to Lockheed's DIALOG or Stanford's BALLOTS systems or similar ones; A better way to answer user questions than a phone based hotline at Apple; Library of Congress card catalog; Legal precedents; Program exchange; Educational courses; Educational testing; Voting; Computer program exchange; Advertising; Computer dating; Tax information; Banking (another step to the cashless society (If taxes don't reduce us to a cashless state first)); Access to large data storage for individual needs; Access to computer power (i.e. timesharing); Insurance quotes; Credit information (what is available: what is my status); Market research; Purchasing information (who has the cheapest refrigerator model 34- aa within 10 miles); Plane schedules; Dictionary and Encyclopedia searches.
The list is potentially endless. Most come under one heading: Access to a Data Base. A few come under the heading: Communication. The remaining handful are miscellaneous."
Problem is most modules look like they came from the eighties. Check out the default coming with OS X today. The 3D RSS-screensaver (cool and useful!) and the iTunes Album Cover-saver that collects data from your iTunes library and displays it in an awesomely cool fashion using OpenGL.
Endless variations of mathematical squigglies and circle-drawing used to be cool when that was the cutting edge of computer graphic. Times have changed.
Actually you don't need to activate devmode on the Dashboard. You can just start dragging a widget from the widget drawer, hit F12 and let it go on your desktop. This works with just one widget at the time as the next time you activate Dashboard, it will "suck" it back in.
Dashboard most definitely is XHTML and similar to active desktop, it can do everything the browser can (JavaScript, media embedding, etc.). It can also do a whole lot more as it is very extensible.
The two struck a deal under which Microsoft bought $150 million of Apple stock and promised to keep supplying Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer for the Mac, programs that made Apple's computers at least somewhat compatible with the PC world. (Microsoft's stake in Apple is now worth well over $1 billion.)
Yes, their non-voting stock would be worth well over $1 billion if they hadn't sold it years ago (for a decent profit even then). Without mentioning this people might still believe that "Microsoft owns (a part of) Apple". Duh.
Apparantly you've missed the Rest-system debate of the World of Warcraft beta, which was a soft version of this designed to give the causual gamer a bonus. "Powergamers" were all up in arms at this idea that "punished them for playing the game too much"!
The rest-system merely gave a bonus (more XP per kill) if you were "rested" and you got progressively more fatigued until you got a penalty (less XP per kill) if you were tired. You could play as much as you wanted of course, you just wouldn't progress as fast (still much faster than one who didn't play of course). The original rest-system required you to log out for 8 hours straight to go to the Rested-state.
The rest-system has since been tuned to give a negliable bonus and you don't have to rest as long.
You know of course that the creator of Be's most beloved feature, the BeFS, Dominic Giampaolo, now works for Apple. That new Spotlight feature in Tiger, looks to leverage a lot of his competence in that area.
I'm in complete agreement. 3D-desktops are a solution looking for a problem. Or at least trying to solve problems that have already been solved better before. Say with Exposé or Multiple Desktops for instance.
Or even that hot new 30" screen Apple just released;-)
Yeah, like using [url=http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Sharewar e/Clicker/]Salling Clicker[/url] with my T610.
Really, it's fucking awesome. Search for artists, songs, browse and displays song with time played / left and everything. Blows everyone I show it to away...
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One fan over here. No driving game since has given me quite the excitement of building my own track. Usually a straight one with a ginormous jump at the end with the explicit goal of trying to jump the fence.
The loops, the jumps. Man, I'm pretty sure this one game inspired the Gorillaz 19 - 2000 video. (And game which you can play on their site).
The austronaut himself calls it a podcast (whether techincally correct since it's no RSS-feed attached to it is up for debate):
The keyword here is learning. It's what some particular kind of posters here on Slashdot never do. And in this case moderators too.Yes, why? Their website only say it is so. No press releases. No explanations.
Well, being locked up in the castle all the time you can't blame her for acting a bit weird lately.
I was running Xscreensavers on Mac OS X 10.1
Problem is most modules look like they came from the eighties. Check out the default coming with OS X today. The 3D RSS-screensaver (cool and useful!) and the iTunes Album Cover-saver that collects data from your iTunes library and displays it in an awesomely cool fashion using OpenGL.
Endless variations of mathematical squigglies and circle-drawing used to be cool when that was the cutting edge of computer graphic. Times have changed.
And even with 10.4.0 it STILL asked you any time you launched a widget for the first time if you were sure you wanted to run it.
Actually you don't need to activate devmode on the Dashboard. You can just start dragging a widget from the widget drawer, hit F12 and let it go on your desktop. This works with just one widget at the time as the next time you activate Dashboard, it will "suck" it back in.
Dashboard most definitely is XHTML and similar to active desktop, it can do everything the browser can (JavaScript, media embedding, etc.). It can also do a whole lot more as it is very extensible.
As opposed to another nail in the OGG coffin?
Come on now. What REAL advantages over AAC or MP3? Honestly curious here.
Isn't that the truth?
In contrast every new upgrade of OS X has made my current mac feel faster.
Longtooth
Yes, their non-voting stock would be worth well over $1 billion if they hadn't sold it years ago (for a decent profit even then). Without mentioning this people might still believe that "Microsoft owns (a part of) Apple". Duh.
Nice article other than that though.
Some correction to be made: The speech technologies in Tiger is the same as ever. Ever meaning since it was introduced a long with the mac in 1984.
I've saw the DS and many of its games on the shelves when I was out purchasing games for my PS2 and GameCube yesterday.
"No one has been trying to beat apple at anything for a long time."
Indeed. Even Microsoft has been giving up on Windows lately. Is Longtooth out anytime soon yet? How about that WinFS?
Apparantly you've missed the Rest-system debate of the World of Warcraft beta, which was a soft version of this designed to give the causual gamer a bonus. "Powergamers" were all up in arms at this idea that "punished them for playing the game too much"!
The rest-system merely gave a bonus (more XP per kill) if you were "rested" and you got progressively more fatigued until you got a penalty (less XP per kill) if you were tired. You could play as much as you wanted of course, you just wouldn't progress as fast (still much faster than one who didn't play of course). The original rest-system required you to log out for 8 hours straight to go to the Rested-state.
The rest-system has since been tuned to give a negliable bonus and you don't have to rest as long.
(uuhmmmm.... Photoshop)
You know of course that the creator of Be's most beloved feature, the BeFS, Dominic Giampaolo, now works for Apple. That new Spotlight feature in Tiger, looks to leverage a lot of his competence in that area.
I'm in complete agreement. 3D-desktops are a solution looking for a problem. Or at least trying to solve problems that have already been solved better before. Say with Exposé or Multiple Desktops for instance.
;-)
Or even that hot new 30" screen Apple just released
Innovative? Sure. Useful? Perhaps.
You should really try out Exposé instead.
Really, it's fucking awesome. Search for artists, songs, browse and displays song with time played / left and everything. Blows everyone I show it to away...
"A web service to call a taxicab to your present location"
Why? I can already call a the nearest taxi cab on my cell phone. That is based on my location.
Only about 5 million songs were redeemed according to Pepsi.
They have advertising in Bathrooms. What, do you live in the third world or what?