It can index your files to allow fast searches at any time if you want it to. This is called the 'Indexing Service.' Of course, when Windows does it, it's bloatware/feature creep/a waste of space/inefficient, but if it's in a Mac release then... oh.... oh yeah... oh steve!... oh goooooddd!!!!
I can run an absolute crapload of programs simultaneously with no noticeable slowdown on my XP machine. For instance, I can happily run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, IE, Mozilla, Filezilla, Winamp 5, Thunderbird, Privoxy, Sygate Personal Firewall and a few instances of explorer with absolutely no performance issues. Even with all that open, if I decide to jump in for a bit of Quake III or similar, it will run perfectly fine.
I would suggest that based on what you describe you have not taken the time to make sure your system is correctly configured and optimised to take best advantage of your hardware, or possibly that you are running loads of junk in the background that you don't really need.
Yeah, yeah, someone says it every time. But seriously, if a company like MS did this, the same people who I see here calling this a 'legitimate business tactic' and 'good marketing' would be calling it a shallow, greedy attempt to abuse market power.
Apple pulls this same stunt, time after time: witholding products to pimp the last few dollars out of the last model and then creating rabid demand by limiting supply artificially for a few months, then launching the new version at inflated prices. Why is it acceptable from them, but no-one else? Why do articles about Apple never have the overtones of shady dealings, corruptions, and victimisation of consumers that ANY article about MS is GUARANTEED to have?
I am no fan of MS's business practices. What makes me different (think different?) to a lot of people who will gushingly post in this thread is that I am no fan of Apple's practices either. Look at yourselves - you're barracking for a COMPANY for god's sake. The money still goes to their shareholders, and getting as much of it as possible is still their #1 objective. Fawning adulation just makes it so much easier.
Interesting to read about this guy. For one thing he's so damn French. For another, I was just in Melbourne, Australia a couple of months ago and I actually saw one of these big space invader symbols on a wall in an alleyway. I thought it was kinda cool at the time... the fact that there are apparently hundreds of them all over the world is also quite cool. I wonder how many will survive the passage of time.
You can replicate the Invader's feats with this stuff from ThinkGeek (with which I am in no way affiliated).
My PC case has excellent airflow, and I don't actually need a screwdriver to open it. I just turn the thumb-screws and off it slides. Many newer PC cases also open with simple clips, rather than screws.
Out of interest - what aspect of a case is 'ergonomic'? I mean, Apples have handles, is that what you mean? Other than that, I try to avoid physical interaction with my case...
If you think something like 'built in networking' is an Apple-only feature, maybe you should look at the way the PC market has evolved over the last 2 years. Most motherboards now come standard with:
- network - USB 1 + 2 - firewire - sound, usually Dolby Digital 5.1 with optical output (my Mac friends with older models still can't believe this is 'standard' given they have to shell out over $100 for this honour) - RAID and SATA
Basically, the only things that are replaceable are those that are likely to BE replaced/upgradeable within one motherboard generation, i.e. CPU, RAM, HDD etc. Even these things are less and less daunting - most motherboards will automatically detect a SATA hard disk and CPU settings without user intervention, for example.
And frankly, I would rather have my computer components like my organs - INternal.
There are plenty of other companies who have excelled in these awards. I see multiple awards to HP and Samsung and awards to IBM, Nokia and other tech companies.
So why should this be classed as a story about 'Apple'?
What's confusing to me is the complete inability of other PC manufacturors to produce intelligently-designed computers.
most PCs nowadays still require you to remove a handful of screws to get inside the case
I'd rather remove a couple of screws using my opposable digits (the lack of which apparently hampers those who pursue the iLife) and double my CPU power for $200 every 12 months than have a super ergonomic case that I can throw in the trash and shell out another $4000 to uncle Steve when it's obsolete.
Apple products are often ahead of its time in a lot of details. So viewing apple products is like seeing what will be available in the future.
Wow, I'm surprised you have the time there in the Apple marketing department to browse slashdot. Shouldn't you be churning out hip looking ads featuring trendy twenty-somethings enjoying the latest iLifestyle iAccessories or something? Or at the very least posting dubiously sourced benchmarks in business magazines?
Why should we miss out on a story about innovative designs of all kinds just because we are sick of hundreds of boring pro-Apple stories? The issue is partly categorisation, not just the high numbers of Apple stories.
This story should be here, but why is it about Apple?
The first thing when you go to the site: "The 130 winners of the 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) won are listed in the categories listed below."
130 winners!!? And Apple won a whole 4 awards! Well, I guess this story should be filed under 'Apple' and not 'computer stuff' or 'inventions' or 'design' or whatever. There are 12 categories and each one seems to have 3-6 gold awards in it, so there are about 30-40 gold awards, let alone silver and bronze.
A great many people here like Apple, respect Apple, but do not think the light shines out of the lower orifices of Apple. There is really no reason to classify this as an 'Apple' story. It would make a great story about modern design aesthetics, but instead some Apple fan decides to post it as an Apple-centric piece of news. Nokia, IBM, and Samsung seem to have done quite well too - but this would never be posted under 'IBM roxx your world' or 'Samsung recognised as world's greatest computer designer' or whatever. So why antagonise the non-Apple-fanboy majority by needlessly politicising this story?
Um... I do basically still only play QIII, because I think it's the best FPS ever made... and I do play Quake 1 every now and then to boot. I've also played Far Cry, UT2004, and the Doom III Alpha and, although they look cool, they are essentially exactly the same in a functional sense as Quake III, or for that matter Quake 1.
I guess the way I see it, the earlier evolution was all about increasing the abilities of the software, but now it's just about increasing the ability of the software to take advantage of new hardware that pushes x million polygons/s and rams x megs of textures/s through the AGP bus.
When you read Romero's page, he talks about Quake's 8th birthday and Wolfenstein's 12th. It's an interesting reflection on how much slower the pace of (revolutionary) development of games is in recent years. It took 1-2 years to go from Wolf 3D to Doom, 1-2 to go from Doom to Quake 1, and now 8 years later even Doom III is not really going to be radically different - true 3D environments, a few new tricks with graphics cards etc., but where's the real revolutionary change?
CNN tv, not CNN.com. The FAQ also points out that there are no plans for a webcast. Amazingly, CNN is not yet ubiquitous in the farthest corners of the American empire (i.e. Australia), so most ppl here will not be able to see the launch I guess.
Hence my question about whether there were any live webcasts that people knew about.
From the various articles about the x-prize and spaceshipone one could be forgiven for wondering whether these guys are really going into 'space', because relative to NASA's exploits they aren't exactly going that high. However, pictures like this and this from earlier test flights give a practical idea of just how high they are going to get... awesome!
I wish there was some sort of webcast... anyone know of anything live?
Well, I'm not _that_ new. But sometimes the selection of stories is somewhat baffling - and I think the existence of sub-sections for minor interest items somewhat undermines the view that there is no account taken of reader interest levels. Surely this story should be under 'games' and not on the front page.
Furthermore, and although its audience may be only approximately as intelligent as "wild monkeys clicking links at random" (which I personally think tends to underrate the skills of wild monkeys),./ does provide an important, independent news function, even if it's mainly meta-news. As such, I think a certain responsibility arises to maintain editorial standards somewhat above "you'll read whatever crap we post and you'll like it, or alternatively, get lost."
Incidentally, I see ANOTHER F&&*^g Mozilla story has been squeezed out onto the front page by an editor.
By the way, I don't really take things as seriously as it might sound...
They will give at least 8/10 for any half-decent PC game, making their reviews utterly useless for any kind of discriminating purchaser.
Worse, however, is the fact that they routinely use the same reviews for multiple platforms. I invite anyone who is interested to go and read their Deus Ex 2 reviews for PC and XBox, they are identical for about 3/4 of the review.
www.gamerankings.com - this is the way to get accurate information about games.
Come on, there must be more than this happening on earth???
This week we've seen -
New Firefox New Mozilla New Thunderbird New Firefox again Patch for some game the majority of people reading the article have absolutely no interest in
Seriously though, and at the risk of sounding like a pretentious Gen X hipster, you should rewatch B+T, because if you think it's a bad movie then I would suggest you aren't getting it.
I would say it's Keanu Reeves' finest hour (not that that's saying much).
For example:
Ted: Our first speaker was born in the year 470 BC, a time when much of the world looked like the cover of the Led Zepplin album Houses of the Holy.
or
Cop: I want to know why you claim to be Sigmund Freud. Freud: Why do you claim I'm not Sigmund Freud? Cop [frustrated]: Why do you keep asking me these questions? Freud: (pause) Tell me about your mother. (the cop gets up in disgust)...would you like a couch to lie on? Cop [angry]: No, I don't want a couch to lie on!
Ferrari was the last team to use a V12, and they phased that out quite some time ago (just before they became totally dominant, strangely enough). All the top teams now use V10s, I remember some talk of the lower end teams using V8s but I don't know if any of them actually do at the moment.
None of the other teams has used a V12 for even longer. You used to be able to tell the Ferraris just by the sound because they were so much higher pitched that the rest of the cars. They sounded great, but unfortunately they broke constantly and weren't all that fast compared to the awesome Williams, McLarens and Bennetons of the 1990s.
"Rule changes are handled by a group of people headed by the president of FIA, who is currently Max Mosley..."...who is in bed with Bernie Eccleston on virtually everything. Eccleston has *huge* influence over what happens - most decisions are ultimately 'commercial', anyway.
This is why the teams are constantly threatening to leave and start their own series.
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It can index your files to allow fast searches at any time if you want it to. This is called the 'Indexing Service.' Of course, when Windows does it, it's bloatware/feature creep/a waste of space/inefficient, but if it's in a Mac release then... oh.... oh yeah... oh steve!... oh goooooddd!!!!
I can run an absolute crapload of programs simultaneously with no noticeable slowdown on my XP machine. For instance, I can happily run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, IE, Mozilla, Filezilla, Winamp 5, Thunderbird, Privoxy, Sygate Personal Firewall and a few instances of explorer with absolutely no performance issues. Even with all that open, if I decide to jump in for a bit of Quake III or similar, it will run perfectly fine.
I would suggest that based on what you describe you have not taken the time to make sure your system is correctly configured and optimised to take best advantage of your hardware, or possibly that you are running loads of junk in the background that you don't really need.
And therefore we must be subjected to every minute piece of Apple information that is leaked out of Steve Jobs' pores all year long.
./ you implicitly waive your right to criticise Apple or question their greatness.
After all, you should realise that by reading
Yeah, yeah, someone says it every time. But seriously, if a company like MS did this, the same people who I see here calling this a 'legitimate business tactic' and 'good marketing' would be calling it a shallow, greedy attempt to abuse market power.
Apple pulls this same stunt, time after time: witholding products to pimp the last few dollars out of the last model and then creating rabid demand by limiting supply artificially for a few months, then launching the new version at inflated prices. Why is it acceptable from them, but no-one else? Why do articles about Apple never have the overtones of shady dealings, corruptions, and victimisation of consumers that ANY article about MS is GUARANTEED to have?
I am no fan of MS's business practices. What makes me different (think different?) to a lot of people who will gushingly post in this thread is that I am no fan of Apple's practices either. Look at yourselves - you're barracking for a COMPANY for god's sake. The money still goes to their shareholders, and getting as much of it as possible is still their #1 objective. Fawning adulation just makes it so much easier.
Not in my country you insensitive clod!
I forgot to modify my post to match only US expectations and interpretations, my bad.
Interesting to read about this guy. For one thing he's so damn French. For another, I was just in Melbourne, Australia a couple of months ago and I actually saw one of these big space invader symbols on a wall in an alleyway. I thought it was kinda cool at the time... the fact that there are apparently hundreds of them all over the world is also quite cool. I wonder how many will survive the passage of time.
You can replicate the Invader's feats with this stuff from ThinkGeek (with which I am in no way affiliated).
At the moment there is a deal floating around where you get the first 4 Zelda games (full versions) with a new Nintendo Gamecube. Pretty cool.
...and several more. It's quite cool, there's a built in NES emulator.
Further, if you get a copy of Animal Crossing for GC and perform various bizarre Japanese tasks you can get full, working versions of:
- excitebike
- wario woods
- donkey kong
- tennis
- golf
- baseball
- zelda
My PC case has excellent airflow, and I don't actually need a screwdriver to open it. I just turn the thumb-screws and off it slides. Many newer PC cases also open with simple clips, rather than screws.
Out of interest - what aspect of a case is 'ergonomic'? I mean, Apples have handles, is that what you mean? Other than that, I try to avoid physical interaction with my case...
If you think something like 'built in networking' is an Apple-only feature, maybe you should look at the way the PC market has evolved over the last 2 years. Most motherboards now come standard with:
- network
- USB 1 + 2
- firewire
- sound, usually Dolby Digital 5.1 with optical output (my Mac friends with older models still can't believe this is 'standard' given they have to shell out over $100 for this honour)
- RAID and SATA
Basically, the only things that are replaceable are those that are likely to BE replaced/upgradeable within one motherboard generation, i.e. CPU, RAM, HDD etc. Even these things are less and less daunting - most motherboards will automatically detect a SATA hard disk and CPU settings without user intervention, for example.
And frankly, I would rather have my computer components like my organs - INternal.
There are plenty of other companies who have excelled in these awards. I see multiple awards to HP and Samsung and awards to IBM, Nokia and other tech companies.
So why should this be classed as a story about 'Apple'?
What's confusing to me is the complete inability of other PC manufacturors to produce intelligently-designed computers.
Oh, so is that why a screen by Samsung and another by BenQ, a keyboard by Logitech, and a bunch of other 'PC' manufacturers won awards?
most PCs nowadays still require you to remove a handful of screws to get inside the case
I'd rather remove a couple of screws using my opposable digits (the lack of which apparently hampers those who pursue the iLife) and double my CPU power for $200 every 12 months than have a super ergonomic case that I can throw in the trash and shell out another $4000 to uncle Steve when it's obsolete.
Apple products are often ahead of its time in a lot of details. So viewing apple products is like seeing what will be available in the future.
Wow, I'm surprised you have the time there in the Apple marketing department to browse slashdot. Shouldn't you be churning out hip looking ads featuring trendy twenty-somethings enjoying the latest iLifestyle iAccessories or something? Or at the very least posting dubiously sourced benchmarks in business magazines?
Why should we miss out on a story about innovative designs of all kinds just because we are sick of hundreds of boring pro-Apple stories? The issue is partly categorisation, not just the high numbers of Apple stories.
This story should be here, but why is it about Apple?
The first thing when you go to the site: "The 130 winners of the 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) won are listed in the categories listed below."
130 winners!!? And Apple won a whole 4 awards! Well, I guess this story should be filed under 'Apple' and not 'computer stuff' or 'inventions' or 'design' or whatever. There are 12 categories and each one seems to have 3-6 gold awards in it, so there are about 30-40 gold awards, let alone silver and bronze.
A great many people here like Apple, respect Apple, but do not think the light shines out of the lower orifices of Apple. There is really no reason to classify this as an 'Apple' story. It would make a great story about modern design aesthetics, but instead some Apple fan decides to post it as an Apple-centric piece of news. Nokia, IBM, and Samsung seem to have done quite well too - but this would never be posted under 'IBM roxx your world' or 'Samsung recognised as world's greatest computer designer' or whatever. So why antagonise the non-Apple-fanboy majority by needlessly politicising this story?
Um... I do basically still only play QIII, because I think it's the best FPS ever made... and I do play Quake 1 every now and then to boot. I've also played Far Cry, UT2004, and the Doom III Alpha and, although they look cool, they are essentially exactly the same in a functional sense as Quake III, or for that matter Quake 1.
I guess the way I see it, the earlier evolution was all about increasing the abilities of the software, but now it's just about increasing the ability of the software to take advantage of new hardware that pushes x million polygons/s and rams x megs of textures/s through the AGP bus.
When you read Romero's page, he talks about Quake's 8th birthday and Wolfenstein's 12th. It's an interesting reflection on how much slower the pace of (revolutionary) development of games is in recent years. It took 1-2 years to go from Wolf 3D to Doom, 1-2 to go from Doom to Quake 1, and now 8 years later even Doom III is not really going to be radically different - true 3D environments, a few new tricks with graphics cards etc., but where's the real revolutionary change?
that's really cool- no polygons, just raytracing
the style reminds me of Bullfrog for some reason
CNN tv, not CNN.com. The FAQ also points out that there are no plans for a webcast. Amazingly, CNN is not yet ubiquitous in the farthest corners of the American empire (i.e. Australia), so most ppl here will not be able to see the launch I guess.
Hence my question about whether there were any live webcasts that people knew about.
From the various articles about the x-prize and spaceshipone one could be forgiven for wondering whether these guys are really going into 'space', because relative to NASA's exploits they aren't exactly going that high. However, pictures like this and this from earlier test flights give a practical idea of just how high they are going to get... awesome! I wish there was some sort of webcast... anyone know of anything live?
It's just part of a new strategy they have called 'fucking up great games.' On an unrelated topic, have you played Deus Ex 2: The Death of Deus Ex?
Well, I'm not _that_ new. But sometimes the selection of stories is somewhat baffling - and I think the existence of sub-sections for minor interest items somewhat undermines the view that there is no account taken of reader interest levels. Surely this story should be under 'games' and not on the front page.
./ does provide an important, independent news function, even if it's mainly meta-news. As such, I think a certain responsibility arises to maintain editorial standards somewhat above "you'll read whatever crap we post and you'll like it, or alternatively, get lost."
Furthermore, and although its audience may be only approximately as intelligent as "wild monkeys clicking links at random" (which I personally think tends to underrate the skills of wild monkeys),
Incidentally, I see ANOTHER F&&*^g Mozilla story has been squeezed out onto the front page by an editor.
By the way, I don't really take things as seriously as it might sound...
They will give at least 8/10 for any half-decent PC game, making their reviews utterly useless for any kind of discriminating purchaser.
Worse, however, is the fact that they routinely use the same reviews for multiple platforms. I invite anyone who is interested to go and read their Deus Ex 2 reviews for PC and XBox, they are identical for about 3/4 of the review.
www.gamerankings.com - this is the way to get accurate information about games.
Come on, there must be more than this happening on earth???
This week we've seen -
New Firefox
New Mozilla
New Thunderbird
New Firefox again
Patch for some game the majority of people reading the article have absolutely no interest in
Be excellent to each other... and party on dudes!
...would you like a couch to lie on?
Seriously though, and at the risk of sounding like a pretentious Gen X hipster, you should rewatch B+T, because if you think it's a bad movie then I would suggest you aren't getting it.
I would say it's Keanu Reeves' finest hour (not that that's saying much).
For example:
Ted: Our first speaker was born in the year 470 BC, a time when much of the world looked like the cover of the Led Zepplin album Houses of the Holy.
or
Cop: I want to know why you claim to be Sigmund Freud.
Freud: Why do you claim I'm not Sigmund Freud?
Cop [frustrated]: Why do you keep asking me these questions?
Freud: (pause) Tell me about your mother. (the cop gets up in disgust)
Cop [angry]: No, I don't want a couch to lie on!
Ferrari was the last team to use a V12, and they phased that out quite some time ago (just before they became totally dominant, strangely enough). All the top teams now use V10s, I remember some talk of the lower end teams using V8s but I don't know if any of them actually do at the moment.
None of the other teams has used a V12 for even longer. You used to be able to tell the Ferraris just by the sound because they were so much higher pitched that the rest of the cars. They sounded great, but unfortunately they broke constantly and weren't all that fast compared to the awesome Williams, McLarens and Bennetons of the 1990s.
"Rule changes are handled by a group of people headed by the president of FIA, who is currently Max Mosley..." ...who is in bed with Bernie Eccleston on virtually everything. Eccleston has *huge* influence over what happens - most decisions are ultimately 'commercial', anyway.
This is why the teams are constantly threatening to leave and start their own series.