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Actually, you can. Hold the Shift key down while starting OS X, and it also starts up in a Safe Mode. It also runs FSCK before you get to the login screen. I do that sometimes after a kernel panic or other problem just to make sure the hard drive is alright. But I never log in that way, I just restart normally when it's done checking.
It's true that one long time Mac-only reseller around here was closing as early as 3 pm on Fridays and closing on weekends. But then I guess that's one reason they aren't allowed to sell new Macs anymore, and they're mainly a repair shop.
Wal-Mart? If they treated Apple like some of their other manufacturers, they'd be trying to make Apple cut corners to reduce their prices.
Depends on how much time and money you want to spend on gaming. I've been unemployed for most of the last two years, so I've stuck with my iMac DV from the fall of '99, but I'm getting good milage out of Diablo II:LoD, and current shareware titles like Escape Velocity: Nova and the Freeverse games. I've even gone old-school recently with XU4, an updated version of Ultima IV.
UT 2004 sounds like a good game, but the hardware cost is too high for me, and I can still boot back into 9.22 for the first UT, with the dozens of third party maps I'd downloaded over the years. Or I can fire up Quake 3 in Panther.
Apple limited the places that sell Macs because so many of them did it so badly. Put one old Mac up on display that doesn't run, and all the sales people steer people away from them, if not insulting you if you insist on a Mac. That's worse for sales than having them available in few places.
But I do wish they weren't so picky about where they open their Apple Stores. Many US states don't have one yet, and the one that's local to me is in an upscale mall filled with yuppies and high priced stores that I'll never set foot in. That sort of thing reinforces the stereotype that Macs are the playthings of the rich and stupid.
Thanks for the info, I was wondering about that. I went ahead with the reboot, since I'd rebooted the day before and had no uptime to preserve. I'd discovered the hard way that Escape Velocity: Nova needs a Panther update..
I did just that with PowerPoint on a Mac Plus, back in '91 or so. It was the first, and so far the last, time I used PowerPoint. "This background will be blue. It doesn't look blue now, but it will when I print it. Then I'll find out what shade of blue."
Not necessarily, I bought my current Mac 4 years ago, when the economy didn't suck so bad, and I wasn't living on unemployment. I still bought Panther anyway, partly for the features, and partly since I'm the OS X expert for my father and some other Mac users. Now if I could find a paying job where Panther knowledge was useful, aside from the occasional house call for tech support..
Hey, I went there with no intention of buying that night. I went mainly to socialize, and I saw plenty of people I know. Mostly MUG members, some Mac consultants I know, a few store employees that were too busy to talk. My father ran into a guy he met at MWSF a couple of years ago as we were on on way out of the mall.
Classic die? Not yet, we need Carbon patches of Majesty, Total Annihilation, and perhaps Unreal Tournament first. And I'm sure there never will be one for Deus Ex...
This is off-topic, but is that the Black Tongue of Mordor in your sig? If so, could you provide a translation? I can't quite work out what all of it means...;-)
Actually, I've heard about some problems with the Erase Install. In particular, I've heard from people who forgot to deauthorize iTunes before deleting it, and risk losing one of their three authorizations forever. Something to remind people about.
My copy of Panther will ship tomorrow(could have picked it up at Panther Night on Friday, but I tried and failed to get $20 off instead..), but I'll likely do a straight upgrade. Everything's up to date and in good shape, and I may not have room on my boot partition for the archive option anyway.
The Mac Gaming market is strongly word of mouth. Make a bad product, and the word gets out fast, and no one will buy. Make a good product, and you'll get noticed easier than in the more crowded PC and console markets. IMHO, anyway.
Some years back, one cross-platform developer considered the Mac market the small but reliable one, as they always sold a decent amount of games to them, and the Windows market was the one they might be ignored by, and might get lucky and make a lot of money on. I'm not sure of the name of that company anymore, it's been a while.
There was some talk on the MacGamer.com forums this weekend about someone possibly porting Postal 2. After some talk, and some graphic descriptions from when I saw my brother playing the game, well, let's just say that there's no longer anyone on MacGamer.com interested in buying the game.
As I and others in the Mac community noticed, there was a very geeky crowd waiting for Panther on Friday night. There were some guys behind my father and myself who talked about Xserves that they owned, and RAIDs, and one made some comment about "the Slashdot crowd", though I didn't hear the rest of it. It made quite a contrast from the regular mall shoppers around us, mostly rich, gorgeous teenage girls leading their submissive boyfriends into one high priced clothing store after another. "What's the line for? An operating system?!" "Are they giving something away? An iMac? Oh, just one iMac, never mind."
As a long time Mac user, I personally learned nothing new in the article, but it's good to get that info into wider circulation. Particularly the sort of people who read the WSJ, influential but not tech savvy.
My iMac is about 4 years old now, and has had two paid upgrades in that time, with Panther making a third if I can find room on my credit card for it. I paid for 10.0 and 10.2. Each gave me new capabilities that I didn't have before, and 10.3 will add still more features and reportedly faster speeds.
You could play AIFF or WAV on an iPod(I have a 20 second WAV on mine), but the 30 minute buffer memory is a lot shorter with uncompressed media, and at the least it would mean less battery life, if not more wear and tear on the hard drive.
No problem, my iMac has no fan, it's in my living room, and it has the only subwoofer in the house. As opposed to my stereo that I got in '87, which gets turned on 3 or 4 times a year for cassettes or LPs Pathetic, I know..
There's a Request feature for music that you don't see and want. But I've been requesting Blind Guardian and Iced Earth since the day the iTMS went online for Mac users, and we still don't have them, or anyone else from Century Media. They've mostly been adding tons of jazz and Spanish music lately, from what I've seen. More Metal, please!
Many people get a Mac and discover some new favorite activity that they didn't do before because it's more complicated and less fun on a PC. Digital photography with iPhoto, digital video with iMovie, or digital music with the formerly Mac-only iTunes are three possibilities.
True, the games market isn't as big on the Mac, but unless you're a teenager with a lot of free time and disposable income(or pirate a lot of games), you'd find it very difficult to "run out of" games on the Mac. Whole lot of Mac games out there I don't have, even allowing that my 4 year old hardware limits my 3D games quite a bit. But I don't judge my games by the number of polygons they push anyway. That has no bearing on how fun they are.
I also spend most of my time on the web, with Mail, iChat, Safari, and iTunes the 4 applications I leave running all day long. Safari is an excellent browser, with what I consider the best method of organizing bookmarks around. But Opera is also available for OS X if you want to keep using it, I tried it a bit the other day.
Any physical music CD I buy gets ripped into iTunes, or as much of it as I think is worthwhile, and put aside, rarely to be used again. Unless it sucks, it gets transferred to my iPod, and gets played on my car radio via Belkin Tunecast FM transmitter.
But then the DVD-ROM on my aging iMac is the only CD player I own anyway, so my situation is probably a bit different.
Not quite, Mac users also got audio books, celebrity playlists, Allowance, and Gift Certificates new the same day iTunes for Windows came out. So a lot of us Mac users were looking at new stuff, too.
As far as I've heard, NO online music service carries the Beatles. They just don't allow it. Granted, most of their hardcore fans already have their music on CD if not vinyl..
All true, I just didn't go into that much detail. Naturally, you could only let two others authorize their machines to play your music, three if you actually deauthorize yourself, but I can't think anyone would do that. And this should only be done with a GOOD friend, who you know won't abuse the system and will deauthorize their own system themselves after they've heard it.
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Actually, you can. Hold the Shift key down while starting OS X, and it also starts up in a Safe Mode. It also runs FSCK before you get to the login screen. I do that sometimes after a kernel panic or other problem just to make sure the hard drive is alright. But I never log in that way, I just restart normally when it's done checking.
It's true that one long time Mac-only reseller around here was closing as early as 3 pm on Fridays and closing on weekends. But then I guess that's one reason they aren't allowed to sell new Macs anymore, and they're mainly a repair shop.
Wal-Mart? If they treated Apple like some of their other manufacturers, they'd be trying to make Apple cut corners to reduce their prices.
Depends on how much time and money you want to spend on gaming. I've been unemployed for most of the last two years, so I've stuck with my iMac DV from the fall of '99, but I'm getting good milage out of Diablo II:LoD, and current shareware titles like Escape Velocity: Nova and the Freeverse games. I've even gone old-school recently with XU4, an updated version of Ultima IV.
UT 2004 sounds like a good game, but the hardware cost is too high for me, and I can still boot back into 9.22 for the first UT, with the dozens of third party maps I'd downloaded over the years. Or I can fire up Quake 3 in Panther.
Apple limited the places that sell Macs because so many of them did it so badly. Put one old Mac up on display that doesn't run, and all the sales people steer people away from them, if not insulting you if you insist on a Mac. That's worse for sales than having them available in few places.
But I do wish they weren't so picky about where they open their Apple Stores. Many US states don't have one yet, and the one that's local to me is in an upscale mall filled with yuppies and high priced stores that I'll never set foot in. That sort of thing reinforces the stereotype that Macs are the playthings of the rich and stupid.
Thanks for the info, I was wondering about that. I went ahead with the reboot, since I'd rebooted the day before and had no uptime to preserve. I'd discovered the hard way that Escape Velocity: Nova needs a Panther update..
The same with The Mac Store, a local St. Louis Mac reseller for over a decade. They still ring up purchases on some early model iMacs.
I did just that with PowerPoint on a Mac Plus, back in '91 or so. It was the first, and so far the last, time I used PowerPoint. "This background will be blue. It doesn't look blue now, but it will when I print it. Then I'll find out what shade of blue."
Good idea, and a Google search turned it right up, but nothing in the St. Louis area. Thanks anyway.
Not necessarily, I bought my current Mac 4 years ago, when the economy didn't suck so bad, and I wasn't living on unemployment. I still bought Panther anyway, partly for the features, and partly since I'm the OS X expert for my father and some other Mac users. Now if I could find a paying job where Panther knowledge was useful, aside from the occasional house call for tech support..
Hey, I went there with no intention of buying that night. I went mainly to socialize, and I saw plenty of people I know. Mostly MUG members, some Mac consultants I know, a few store employees that were too busy to talk. My father ran into a guy he met at MWSF a couple of years ago as we were on on way out of the mall.
Classic die? Not yet, we need Carbon patches of Majesty, Total Annihilation, and perhaps Unreal Tournament first. And I'm sure there never will be one for Deus Ex...
This is off-topic, but is that the Black Tongue of Mordor in your sig? If so, could you provide a translation? I can't quite work out what all of it means... ;-)
Actually, I've heard about some problems with the Erase Install. In particular, I've heard from people who forgot to deauthorize iTunes before deleting it, and risk losing one of their three authorizations forever. Something to remind people about.
My copy of Panther will ship tomorrow(could have picked it up at Panther Night on Friday, but I tried and failed to get $20 off instead..), but I'll likely do a straight upgrade. Everything's up to date and in good shape, and I may not have room on my boot partition for the archive option anyway.
Not always, but much of the time.
The Mac Gaming market is strongly word of mouth. Make a bad product, and the word gets out fast, and no one will buy. Make a good product, and you'll get noticed easier than in the more crowded PC and console markets. IMHO, anyway.
Some years back, one cross-platform developer considered the Mac market the small but reliable one, as they always sold a decent amount of games to them, and the Windows market was the one they might be ignored by, and might get lucky and make a lot of money on. I'm not sure of the name of that company anymore, it's been a while.
There was some talk on the MacGamer.com forums this weekend about someone possibly porting Postal 2. After some talk, and some graphic descriptions from when I saw my brother playing the game, well, let's just say that there's no longer anyone on MacGamer.com interested in buying the game.
As I and others in the Mac community noticed, there was a very geeky crowd waiting for Panther on Friday night. There were some guys behind my father and myself who talked about Xserves that they owned, and RAIDs, and one made some comment about "the Slashdot crowd", though I didn't hear the rest of it. It made quite a contrast from the regular mall shoppers around us, mostly rich, gorgeous teenage girls leading their submissive boyfriends into one high priced clothing store after another. "What's the line for? An operating system?!" "Are they giving something away? An iMac? Oh, just one iMac, never mind."
As a long time Mac user, I personally learned nothing new in the article, but it's good to get that info into wider circulation. Particularly the sort of people who read the WSJ, influential but not tech savvy.
My iMac is about 4 years old now, and has had two paid upgrades in that time, with Panther making a third if I can find room on my credit card for it. I paid for 10.0 and 10.2. Each gave me new capabilities that I didn't have before, and 10.3 will add still more features and reportedly faster speeds.
You could play AIFF or WAV on an iPod(I have a 20 second WAV on mine), but the 30 minute buffer memory is a lot shorter with uncompressed media, and at the least it would mean less battery life, if not more wear and tear on the hard drive.
No problem, my iMac has no fan, it's in my living room, and it has the only subwoofer in the house. As opposed to my stereo that I got in '87, which gets turned on 3 or 4 times a year for cassettes or LPs Pathetic, I know..
There's a Request feature for music that you don't see and want. But I've been requesting Blind Guardian and Iced Earth since the day the iTMS went online for Mac users, and we still don't have them, or anyone else from Century Media. They've mostly been adding tons of jazz and Spanish music lately, from what I've seen. More Metal, please!
Many people get a Mac and discover some new favorite activity that they didn't do before because it's more complicated and less fun on a PC. Digital photography with iPhoto, digital video with iMovie, or digital music with the formerly Mac-only iTunes are three possibilities.
True, the games market isn't as big on the Mac, but unless you're a teenager with a lot of free time and disposable income(or pirate a lot of games), you'd find it very difficult to "run out of" games on the Mac. Whole lot of Mac games out there I don't have, even allowing that my 4 year old hardware limits my 3D games quite a bit. But I don't judge my games by the number of polygons they push anyway. That has no bearing on how fun they are.
I also spend most of my time on the web, with Mail, iChat, Safari, and iTunes the 4 applications I leave running all day long. Safari is an excellent browser, with what I consider the best method of organizing bookmarks around. But Opera is also available for OS X if you want to keep using it, I tried it a bit the other day.
Burn the CD, print a label? Whatever for?
Any physical music CD I buy gets ripped into iTunes, or as much of it as I think is worthwhile, and put aside, rarely to be used again. Unless it sucks, it gets transferred to my iPod, and gets played on my car radio via Belkin Tunecast FM transmitter.
But then the DVD-ROM on my aging iMac is the only CD player I own anyway, so my situation is probably a bit different.
Not quite, Mac users also got audio books, celebrity playlists, Allowance, and Gift Certificates new the same day iTunes for Windows came out. So a lot of us Mac users were looking at new stuff, too.
As far as I've heard, NO online music service carries the Beatles. They just don't allow it. Granted, most of their hardcore fans already have their music on CD if not vinyl..
All true, I just didn't go into that much detail. Naturally, you could only let two others authorize their machines to play your music, three if you actually deauthorize yourself, but I can't think anyone would do that. And this should only be done with a GOOD friend, who you know won't abuse the system and will deauthorize their own system themselves after they've heard it.