As for XP versus OSX.. I can't say much, except there is an enormous supply of business software and games. It would take many years for OSX to catch up.
There are three things wrong with that:
1. Don't include proprietary business apps, in-house apps, and other "custom" jobs. They could just as well be written for OS X.
2. Don't let sheer numbers be the deciding factor. How many spreadsheet apps do you need? (For that matter, how many are there?) You can run a business on a Mac. The Apple Store is proof of that. (Can you run any business on a Mac? See #1.)
3. The Mac does not lag behind when it comes to games. In fact, I have games for my Mac I haven't even bothered to install yet. Granted, a few high-profile games are PC-only. There are also plenty of games that are (or were) Mac-only. The majority of games from big name software houses nowadays are cross-platform.
Though I do agree that the story is a Troll in Interesting's clothing.
Uh, except that I asked for it, and it was posted as a reply to me. It also isn't clickable. I hope people don't just copy and paste links without reading the conversation to see what they are.
I can say with 99% certainty that it will work. It has USB, it has the drivers, and it'll know what to do with it. I'm willing to bet the speakers aren't necessary for the iSub to work, though I may be wrong on that one. Anyway, good luck.
I keep hearing this line about pictures on McDonald's registers. I've never actually seen this, so where do you live that you've come across this? I worked at McDonald's until recently, and the registers they were still using basically required you to memorize a 200-300 item hash table; since only 6 characters were allowed for each item, you had to remember what a "SAECBS" was. (Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit.) There was a little more space on the keyboard overlay, of course, but if you hit the wrong button, you have to know what you just entered.
Are you talking about the US? That's the point. There isn't another host. You get one ISP for DSL. One ISP for cable. Often, they end up being comparable. Often, one or both aren't available at your house, though they may be at a neighbor's house.
I suspect deregulation and increased competition would help the telecom industry more than anything else. The wireless market has certainly become rather cutthroat.
I became very skeptical of those things when it was shown to me that B+Start was an acceptable version of the Konami code. (Try pushing both as Contra loads. Or at title screen, I forget which.)
Wow, just for kicks, I did too. That was actually easy. Has Real changed management within the past year or so? Or is a certain someone there finally not a complete idiot?
I note previous versions of the player are available. Whatever happened to the free encoders which date back to 1994 or so? (System 7.5, PowerMac 7100 era.)
Or the cartoon ExoSquad, as I recall. That cartoon had a lot of promise. I don't remember if I ever saw the whole thing, but it was pretty grown up for a cartoon.
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Can anyone say what this qttask.exe actually does? There doesn't seem to be a Mac-side counterpart.
Who the hell wants to view digital photos on an NTSC TV? Shouldn't these game console companies focus on the higher end of gaming first?
When are we going to see a game console that offers 3-D audio in a way to make it easy for developers to use it? With an optical out port? Or better yet, some way in the system for direct speaker output?
But it seems consumers don't even want that. Nintendo pulled the digital video out on the Gamecube because less than 1% of its users needed component out.
I just have enough cable clutter already. In addition to the aforementioned, I've also got a CD burner, iPod, and two external FireWire drives hooked up. I've always enjoyed the single cable from my monitor. The fact that FireWire is also on the new one is nice.
Plus, I guess the new cable makes for a nice flog.
Eh, I guess... That's still four cables in the back of the computer, though. I always liked that I could have a full-fledged setup (monitor, speakers, network connection, keyboard/mouse) with only three cords coming out the back of my computer. Which one of those is power, anyway?
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The other is Indigo, a web services-based communications infrastructure, fyi.
/troll-sounding because it's short and sarcastic
WTF does that mean?
Is Microsoft reconfiguring the main deflector dish?
4-year-old Powerbook? Are you ready to sell yet? /half serious if I had the $$$
As for XP versus OSX.. I can't say much, except there is an enormous supply of business software and games. It would take many years for OSX to catch up.
There are three things wrong with that:
1. Don't include proprietary business apps, in-house apps, and other "custom" jobs. They could just as well be written for OS X.
2. Don't let sheer numbers be the deciding factor. How many spreadsheet apps do you need? (For that matter, how many are there?) You can run a business on a Mac. The Apple Store is proof of that. (Can you run any business on a Mac? See #1.)
3. The Mac does not lag behind when it comes to games. In fact, I have games for my Mac I haven't even bothered to install yet. Granted, a few high-profile games are PC-only. There are also plenty of games that are (or were) Mac-only. The majority of games from big name software houses nowadays are cross-platform.
Though I do agree that the story is a Troll in Interesting's clothing.
Uh, except that I asked for it, and it was posted as a reply to me. It also isn't clickable. I hope people don't just copy and paste links without reading the conversation to see what they are.
Thanks! Downloaded and opened!
Don't want sample code. Want JPEG.
I want to see what GraphicConverter does with this.
I can say with 99% certainty that it will work. It has USB, it has the drivers, and it'll know what to do with it. I'm willing to bet the speakers aren't necessary for the iSub to work, though I may be wrong on that one. Anyway, good luck.
I keep hearing this line about pictures on McDonald's registers. I've never actually seen this, so where do you live that you've come across this? I worked at McDonald's until recently, and the registers they were still using basically required you to memorize a 200-300 item hash table; since only 6 characters were allowed for each item, you had to remember what a "SAECBS" was. (Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit.) There was a little more space on the keyboard overlay, of course, but if you hit the wrong button, you have to know what you just entered.
I don't know where the hell you are, but I can tell you that you can be 50 miles from Boston and in an area serviced by neither DSL nor cable.
The question here isn't "Will we pay for faster service?"; it's "Why is service so much faster and cheaper in so many other countries?"
Something to consider for owners of apartment complexes, perhaps. I imagine an ISP might be happy with such an arrangement if they sanctioned it.
Are you talking about the US? That's the point. There isn't another host. You get one ISP for DSL. One ISP for cable. Often, they end up being comparable. Often, one or both aren't available at your house, though they may be at a neighbor's house.
I suspect deregulation and increased competition would help the telecom industry more than anything else. The wireless market has certainly become rather cutthroat.
I became very skeptical of those things when it was shown to me that B+Start was an acceptable version of the Konami code. (Try pushing both as Contra loads. Or at title screen, I forget which.)
Didn't I recently see a Hudson Soft logo? Perhaps on Mario Party 4? Or was that a different company?
Wow, just for kicks, I did too. That was actually easy. Has Real changed management within the past year or so? Or is a certain someone there finally not a complete idiot?
I note previous versions of the player are available. Whatever happened to the free encoders which date back to 1994 or so? (System 7.5, PowerMac 7100 era.)
Or the cartoon ExoSquad, as I recall. That cartoon had a lot of promise. I don't remember if I ever saw the whole thing, but it was pretty grown up for a cartoon.
Can anyone say what this qttask.exe actually does? There doesn't seem to be a Mac-side counterpart.
Is that a reference to Rez or Megatokyo?
Who the hell wants to view digital photos on an NTSC TV? Shouldn't these game console companies focus on the higher end of gaming first?
When are we going to see a game console that offers 3-D audio in a way to make it easy for developers to use it? With an optical out port? Or better yet, some way in the system for direct speaker output?
But it seems consumers don't even want that. Nintendo pulled the digital video out on the Gamecube because less than 1% of its users needed component out.
Actually, they did mention that. RTFA again.
You whipped those up in less than 10 minutes? I don't know whether to be impressed or scared.
But what if your leg gets amputated?
I just have enough cable clutter already. In addition to the aforementioned, I've also got a CD burner, iPod, and two external FireWire drives hooked up. I've always enjoyed the single cable from my monitor. The fact that FireWire is also on the new one is nice.
Plus, I guess the new cable makes for a nice flog.
Eh, I guess... That's still four cables in the back of the computer, though. I always liked that I could have a full-fledged setup (monitor, speakers, network connection, keyboard/mouse) with only three cords coming out the back of my computer. Which one of those is power, anyway?