IMHO cordless mice suck. This is basically because of the incredible lag between moving the mouse and something actually happening on the screen. I've tried the MS Wireless and the Logitech one and I'm very dissatisfied with both. (Though I did keep the MS one to use a remote control for my PC).
Is this new one any less rubbish? Doubt it.
Optical tracking, on the other hand, is the best improvement to the mouse that has been made since the scroll wheel.
Yeah, last time I checked, there was about 1 virus for MacOS; and that was a fairly harmless one.
I guess us Mac users are too busy experiencing our "vast social lives" to bother with virus writing. Unfortunately mine didn't come with a manual and I'm not having much luck getting to it to work, and you know what Apple is like with returns.
I agree it would be 'nice' if P2P networks were used for this kind of sharing, unfortunately that's just not what people want; if some statistics of legal/illegal file transfers via kazaa were taken then I'm pretty sure I know what proportion of files transferred would be legitimate.
At what point in the transaction process does this program get hold of my credit card number when I'm buying something from Amazon.com? Does it intercept the actual ssl transmission or something? Will it only work with IE or will it affect all other browsers too?
Oh come on! Who the hell shares legal files on that thing? If a file is legal to obtain for free then you could just download it from the original source at a reasonable speed. It was quite clearly invented to share illegal files. If it were designed for legal file sharing then it would be centralised like Napster was (but needn't have any worry of being shut down), wheras it hides away in a huge, badly optimised distributed network.
And you're gonna be willing to sit in a ship sat next to enough explosives to destroy the whole Earth and then have it fire you into space so fast you form a smear on the back of it?
I need a dual 2 gig Xeon machine. I work for BAE Systems and I need super fast machine to test out my software on. Even then it can take like a week to run. Computers still need to get way faster.
Even games require at least a 1.5GHz XP these days if you want them to look half decent. OF: Resistance chugs on my machine at home (XP1700/GF4Ti4400) unless I turn the draw distance down.
If I remember correctly, they'd already pretty much surrendered when the bomb was being flown over. The military just wanted to test out their new shiny toy.
Also, I beleive that America has bombed something like 35 countries killing 3 million people in it's history. That's quite a lot. That's as bad as Germany and the number of Jews they had killed.
I don't think it's fair to compare home-built systems with Mac systems now really, is it? What would be a fair comparison would be to look at an equivalently specced Dell machine or some such and compare with the Mac; granted it may still be cheaper but at least it'll be a fair test.
You're reccomending against buying this game because it takes up a lot of hard disk space? That's not the most convincing argument I've ever heard.
The reason I may not buy this game (who am I kidding, course I am) is because it doesn't do anything that UT + q3 didn't do. Can't beat q3 DM and can't beat UT other stuff.
You forgot to mention that the Mac/Linux ports are of inferior quality though without editing tools and never up to date with the latest Windows version; I wouldn't be quite so bothered by this if these companies didn't actually say they'd be released at the same time and wouldn't be feature complete.
I'm a Mac user. My hardware is definitely not faster or more powerful than a good PC. More reliable maybe, but not faster, etc.
Indeed an x86 version of OSX would be great, but Apple would have a hard time becoming a software based company, owing much of their cash to overpriced hardware.
Kinda stupid to reply, but do you think someone actively went around correcting the spellings of words? Or do you think the words' spellings changed because people repeatedly spelled them the easy/wrong way?
Also, who's language is it anyway? What proportion of the world's population speak it? Can't really be that bad.
From the screenshots, Rhythmbox looks like what I want. Thanks for the info. xmms looks just like WinAmp to me, and WinAmp's not my cup of tea.
Now all I have to do is get my nForce sound chipset working under Linux.
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IMHO cordless mice suck. This is basically because of the incredible lag between moving the mouse and something actually happening on the screen. I've tried the MS Wireless and the Logitech one and I'm very dissatisfied with both. (Though I did keep the MS one to use a remote control for my PC).
Is this new one any less rubbish? Doubt it.
Optical tracking, on the other hand, is the best improvement to the mouse that has been made since the scroll wheel.
Yeah, last time I checked, there was about 1 virus for MacOS; and that was a fairly harmless one.
I guess us Mac users are too busy experiencing our "vast social lives" to bother with virus writing. Unfortunately mine didn't come with a manual and I'm not having much luck getting to it to work, and you know what Apple is like with returns.
There's an easy fix to stop MS ownzing your box when you install SP3, as long as you can use RegEdit.
Wait, isn't that iterative? Though I admittedly it does do the same thing in this case.
I agree it would be 'nice' if P2P networks were used for this kind of sharing, unfortunately that's just not what people want; if some statistics of legal/illegal file transfers via kazaa were taken then I'm pretty sure I know what proportion of files transferred would be legitimate.
At what point in the transaction process does this program get hold of my credit card number when I'm buying something from Amazon.com? Does it intercept the actual ssl transmission or something? Will it only work with IE or will it affect all other browsers too?
Anybody any ideas?
Oh come on! Who the hell shares legal files on that thing? If a file is legal to obtain for free then you could just download it from the original source at a reasonable speed. It was quite clearly invented to share illegal files. If it were designed for legal file sharing then it would be centralised like Napster was (but needn't have any worry of being shut down), wheras it hides away in a huge, badly optimised distributed network.
And you're gonna be willing to sit in a ship sat next to enough explosives to destroy the whole Earth and then have it fire you into space so fast you form a smear on the back of it?
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So basically what you're saying is that you can't be a sailing fan if you can't spell? Sounds fair to me...
I need a dual 2 gig Xeon machine. I work for BAE Systems and I need super fast machine to test out my software on. Even then it can take like a week to run. Computers still need to get way faster.
Even games require at least a 1.5GHz XP these days if you want them to look half decent. OF: Resistance chugs on my machine at home (XP1700/GF4Ti4400) unless I turn the draw distance down.
Playing at 15fps is pretty flipping awful though!
But you know what your own car is right?
If I remember correctly, they'd already pretty much surrendered when the bomb was being flown over. The military just wanted to test out their new shiny toy.
Also, I beleive that America has bombed something like 35 countries killing 3 million people in it's history. That's quite a lot. That's as bad as Germany and the number of Jews they had killed.
I don't think it's fair to compare home-built systems with Mac systems now really, is it? What would be a fair comparison would be to look at an equivalently specced Dell machine or some such and compare with the Mac; granted it may still be cheaper but at least it'll be a fair test.
You tried upgrading the drivers? There is a Linux section at nvidia's site. They even provide RPMs for those who don't like to compile stuff.
You're reccomending against buying this game because it takes up a lot of hard disk space? That's not the most convincing argument I've ever heard.
The reason I may not buy this game (who am I kidding, course I am) is because it doesn't do anything that UT + q3 didn't do. Can't beat q3 DM and can't beat UT other stuff.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
You forgot to mention that the Mac/Linux ports are of inferior quality though without editing tools and never up to date with the latest Windows version; I wouldn't be quite so bothered by this if these companies didn't actually say they'd be released at the same time and wouldn't be feature complete.
I guess that's why I run all 3 major OSs though.
I beleive there is a util to enable Quartz Extreme on PCI Macs available. You could look on XLR8, that's where I read the article on it.
I'm a Mac user. My hardware is definitely not faster or more powerful than a good PC. More reliable maybe, but not faster, etc.
Indeed an x86 version of OSX would be great, but Apple would have a hard time becoming a software based company, owing much of their cash to overpriced hardware.
It'd be nice if you could actually run MacOS on things other than Macs then. Or if I could afford a Ti Book; either will do nicely.
(yes I know that Apple 'reportedly' have an x86 port they keep in sync with the Mac version, but I take that 'report' with a pinch of salt)
Kinda stupid to reply, but do you think someone actively went around correcting the spellings of words? Or do you think the words' spellings changed because people repeatedly spelled them the easy/wrong way?
Also, who's language is it anyway? What proportion of the world's population speak it? Can't really be that bad.
Hehe... Dilbert.
KDE runs absolutely fine on my old G3/233. You can turn off all the stupid animations you know.
From the screenshots, Rhythmbox looks like what I want. Thanks for the info. xmms looks just like WinAmp to me, and WinAmp's not my cup of tea. Now all I have to do is get my nForce sound chipset working under Linux.