Wow that's great about that new graphics engine and stuff, but is it just me or has this really been pretty much the same game they've been selling us for years?
IMO the only 3D shooter game that broke the mold was Tribes and that's even starting to get stale. Could someone please design a different type of action game? Please?
I will admit that Oni and GTA3 were a little different though they weren't shooters per se and I wish someone would make Oni multiplayer in addition to GTA3.
Good one! Score one for Apple!! (This is coming from a die hard PC user.)
In fact I would be really happy if Adobe stopped working on things on the PC side too. They just took over my favorite audio editing software called Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium. Now it is doomed to suck as much as Premiere.:(
These always make me laugh. "How come the IBM Linux commercial is only on Windows Media not some open source codec that only we know about..."
It is not irony. There are two major reasons for this:
1. It is marketing. Most people still have windows and will until Linux wins out on the desktop for average users.
2. Avid or whatever they use for edting outputs in whatever the video format guy knows how to use. Most TV producers are not computer scientists and don't see the irony and/or don't care.
1984 is starting to look a lot like 1984 now isn't it?
Thanks for the chips IBM! Thanks for the bailout Bill Gates! Thanks for the chips again IBM!
Where would Apple be now if its "foes" didn't come to help out?
Not as much a flame as a question actually. I really do like PPC when compared to X86 and it is always good to add excitement of any sort in this industry.
The FCC just voted to allow futher consolidation of media companies. Aren't they getting enough kickbacks right now? I'm pretty pissed about that already.
But... I'll pay the tax if they force cable companys to let broadband users drop basic cable service and still maintain cable modem servic for @ 40/month. For me the cable modem is really about $60/month, because I don't watch much tv and what I do watch is network news anyway. (I'll glady let them take away cheesball Fox News.)
Well there are many smaller scale auctions run by/for nonprofit groups. Look at public television for instance. Public television stations might now have to pay a fee just to show their donated goods online as well as on TV. That's crazy.
Most of these early bootlegs are filmed on a VHS camcorder with people's heads in the picture. If I was planning on seeing Matrix in the theatre, I wouldn't download a garbage version. If I wasn't planning on seeing it in theatres, I might consider it, but I'd probably still wait for the DVD. How does this hurt them?
Wasn't the Amiga the first non Apple (certified) computer to boot MacOS? Besides, I thought that this would run on any PPC machine under Linux. What's the news here?
"Apple executives took obvious glee last week in... Microsoft's 2005 version of its Windows operating system, apes features that have been in Apple's OS X operating system since 2001."
Apple Innovates Again and Patents Apes in an Operating System.
Steve Jobs sued Microsoft yesterday over use of clothed chimps to code Longhorn in a blatant attempt to get around the Apple "ape patent."
Jobs, "Even if they are successful in fighting off the lawsuit, everyone knows that apes are stronger than chimps. This details why Microsoft has been plagued by security problems. Don't send in a chimp to do an ape's work!"
Jobs added that the next version of the iMac will also utilize a design patent related to apes.
"Microsoft may have decided to copy our flat panel design, but we still have another patent related to computers that change color. Our designers included this after observing the multiple colors on the back sides of some primates. We call them rainbow butt monkeys internally and the next iMacs will have coloring simlar to that. Most chimps have plain hairy butts, but ours don't. So that's another reason that people will find our computers more pleasing to look at and easier to use."
While Apple has been known for rounded edges on computer cases, Jobs declined comment on whether the behinds of "rainbow butt monkeys" or plain chimps were more pleasing to the touch.
While I'm all for getting rid of garbage journals, there will be a lot of legit sites hurt by this, just because they use a popular content management system like Nuke or Slash. Short of renaming your software all the time, it may also be time that CMS developers wrote better code.
If instead of always having dynamic pages, how about the CMS systems spit out static pages and just use the CMS to create them in the first place. They would run 10X faster and maybe survive Slashdottings!
The point is putting cameras at places where normal people aren't supposed to be (nuclear power plants, chemical plants). In that context it makes more sense. Yes it is a little 1984 and could be misused.
My big concern is that it could let potential terrorists know where the cameras are actually placed and give them details about other security measures in place. I guess that's all in how it is used.
Anyway, after seeing the Nova documentary on how vulnerable some targets really are, a little security is better than the level we have now.
Sure there are other things you can do with the i-Pod, but when schools are getting bothered by the RIAA all the time, this doesn't seem to make much sense. Well... unless they really like having the RIAA after them? I don't know.
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If you're looking at expensive mics, try out Octava. They're Russian, a little cheaper than the others out there and perhaps not a durable, but I heard some really good sound come out of them. For around $500 I like the ElectroVoice RE 20. It's a very good all around mic. It's great on voice, drums, whatever and it is quite durable.
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Mod me down if you wish, but this is part of the problem. I know that sound quality from a $25 soundcard on your PC is studio quality if you took the right steps to dampen the noise in the room you record in. (I don't buy the $9 mic. At least get a $100 Shure SM-58 and a decent preamp. Please for the love of God.)
What do you need a professional recording studio for? SO YOU DON'T SOUND LIKE YOU RECORDED THIS IN YOUR GARAGE! Yes it is CD quality, but CD quality crap doesn't make for a good recording. Let alone the quality of the music being the most important thing.
Seriously, so many people could really use a second pair of ears and don't know it. That's the problem with music today. Real music is doomed as long as this crap continues.
Put your stuff on MP3.com. Then ask yourself. Does anyone care?
The whole notion that Pro Tools and my personal favorite Cool Edit Pro (someone please make a Linux clone or port it with Wine or something!) will make the recording industry sell CDs for less is absurd.
Look guys, everyone here on Slashdot is always talking about the music revolution where the artist produces and markets their own music. Well its here now and guess what? It completely sucks.
Now it is super cheap and easy to get great results at home (if you have a clue what you are doing and most people DON'T!). You don't need expensive recording studios or audio technicians worth beans. The good part is that. I've been able to do a lot of my own production far cheaper than before and it sounds better, because I know what I'm doing and have been trained in the area.
The bad part is that so can Joe Sixpack and his band. Nobody thinks they need help, but 99% of people out there really need a second pair of ears (and someone with experience) more than they need high-tech recording gear.
Recording studios know this. Overproduced or not, Brittany or whatever decent looking bimbo they find on the Mickey Mouse club is easier to market than any good band that isn't pretty (thanks MTV). Now these unpretty, but good muscians are less likely to get a contract, partly because of filesharing.
An intelligent rock(jazz or whatever) band generally has a more sophisticated audience than Brittany Spears. Do most of the Slashdotters download Spears? Probably not. Whereas Boy Band audiences are less into technology.
Isn't it interesting how the free music revolution helped to kill real music? You guys got your free music and from here on out, that's what most of it is going to be worth no matter what Apple or anyone else makes us pay for it.
Whether or not filesharing is actually hurting revenue for bands themselves is another question, but in the eyes of a record company what makes more $$$? Do you think a real group would be more profitable or Brittany? In most cases, Brittany and the Boy Bands. They're also a lot less likely to try and bite the hand that feeds them a la Pearl Jam, Ticketmaster and MTV.
So now these good muscians who can't get a record deal can at least produce themselves, but the results are usually pathetic. Go on MP3.com and show me any really good homerecorded bands. Then tell me how long it took you to find them. Then tell me if you are actually going to go see them in concert.
Love 'em or hate 'em we need record companies, radio to sort through the crap so the cream can rise to the top. Kazaa or any of the other filesharing systems don't really expose you to new things. The only good music broadcast out there these days is at radioparadise.com. Tune in. You'll be glad you did.
Okay, regardless of whether or not Apple ever designs X86 computers, if they did it wouldn't lower their profits. Why? They can still charge more their computers if the OS only runs on their version of x86 hardware! If it runs faster, the Mac faithful will be pleased. Sure someone is likely to hack it to work on a white box PC, but as far as average end users are concerned, it is not a big issue and any piracy issues would be easily offset by the number of new people buying slightly cheaper Windows compatible Macs. (Heck, I might even consider it.)
I also suspect that OSX (if written properly for a small set of sound/video cards) would be faster than Windows on the same machine. Even if it isn't, people crave the Mac experience. Mac users have never minded paying more. They don't even care that Macs are the slowest on the block right now. It's about the user experience folks. Plain and simple.
If you want portable emulation, get a laptop. Then you can play whatever wherever. Hey you wouldn't even need to emulate. There are plenty of good PC games.
Okay they don't fit in your pocket, but hey.;)
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Wow that's great about that new graphics engine and stuff, but is it just me or has this really been pretty much the same game they've been selling us for years?
IMO the only 3D shooter game that broke the mold was Tribes and that's even starting to get stale. Could someone please design a different type of action game? Please?
I will admit that Oni and GTA3 were a little different though they weren't shooters per se and I wish someone would make Oni multiplayer in addition to GTA3.
Good one! Score one for Apple!! (This is coming from a die hard PC user.)
:(
In fact I would be really happy if Adobe stopped working on things on the PC side too. They just took over my favorite audio editing software called Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium. Now it is doomed to suck as much as Premiere.
I can't wait to run Staroffice on that thing. Those stuck on MS are sure to swtich now!
These always make me laugh. "How come the IBM Linux commercial is only on Windows Media not some open source codec that only we know about..."
It is not irony. There are two major reasons for this:
1. It is marketing. Most people still have windows and will until Linux wins out on the desktop for average users.
2. Avid or whatever they use for edting outputs in whatever the video format guy knows how to use. Most TV producers are not computer scientists and don't see the irony and/or don't care.
1984 is starting to look a lot like 1984 now isn't it?
Thanks for the chips IBM!
Thanks for the bailout Bill Gates!
Thanks for the chips again IBM!
Where would Apple be now if its "foes" didn't come to help out?
Not as much a flame as a question actually. I really do like PPC when compared to X86 and it is always good to add excitement of any sort in this industry.
The FCC just voted to allow futher consolidation of media companies. Aren't they getting enough kickbacks right now? I'm pretty pissed about that already.
But... I'll pay the tax if they force cable companys to let broadband users drop basic cable service and still maintain cable modem servic for @ 40/month. For me the cable modem is really about $60/month, because I don't watch much tv and what I do watch is network news anyway. (I'll glady let them take away cheesball Fox News.)
Wait you mean http://www.voanews.com/coast/... Right?
Well there are many smaller scale auctions run by/for nonprofit groups. Look at public television for instance. Public television stations might now have to pay a fee just to show their donated goods online as well as on TV. That's crazy.
Most of these early bootlegs are filmed on a VHS camcorder with people's heads in the picture. If I was planning on seeing Matrix in the theatre, I wouldn't download a garbage version. If I wasn't planning on seeing it in theatres, I might consider it, but I'd probably still wait for the DVD. How does this hurt them?
Microsoft is bad um'kay! Microsoft
Actually if they are cracking for good, then aren't they really hackers?
Oh, you want benchmarks? http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date= 2003-05-05#5440
Those aren't even real!
Wasn't the Amiga the first non Apple (certified) computer to boot MacOS? Besides, I thought that this would run on any PPC machine under Linux. What's the news here?
He's going to totally get sued by Steve Jobs for selling an original Apple computer on E-Bay.
I thought Microsoft was finally being innovative!
"Apple executives took obvious glee last week in ... Microsoft's 2005 version of its Windows operating system, apes features that have been in Apple's OS X operating system since 2001."
Apple Innovates Again and Patents Apes in an Operating System.
Steve Jobs sued Microsoft yesterday over use of clothed chimps to code Longhorn in a blatant attempt to get around the Apple "ape patent."
Jobs, "Even if they are successful in fighting off the lawsuit, everyone knows that apes are stronger than chimps. This details why Microsoft has been plagued by security problems. Don't send in a chimp to do an ape's work!"
Jobs added that the next version of the iMac will also utilize a design patent related to apes.
"Microsoft may have decided to copy our flat panel design, but we still have another patent related to computers that change color. Our designers included this after observing the multiple colors on the back sides of some primates. We call them rainbow butt monkeys internally and the next iMacs will have coloring simlar to that. Most chimps have plain hairy butts, but ours don't. So that's another reason that people will find our computers more pleasing to look at and easier to use."
While Apple has been known for rounded edges on computer cases, Jobs declined comment on whether the behinds of "rainbow butt monkeys" or plain chimps were more pleasing to the touch.
If instead of always having dynamic pages, how about the CMS systems spit out static pages and just use the CMS to create them in the first place. They would run 10X faster and maybe survive Slashdottings!
The point is putting cameras at places where normal people aren't supposed to be (nuclear power plants, chemical plants). In that context it makes more sense. Yes it is a little 1984 and could be misused.
My big concern is that it could let potential terrorists know where the cameras are actually placed and give them details about other security measures in place. I guess that's all in how it is used.
Anyway, after seeing the Nova documentary on how vulnerable some targets really are, a little security is better than the level we have now.
Sure there are other things you can do with the i-Pod, but when schools are getting bothered by the RIAA all the time, this doesn't seem to make much sense. Well... unless they really like having the RIAA after them? I don't know.
If you're looking at expensive mics, try out Octava. They're Russian, a little cheaper than the others out there and perhaps not a durable, but I heard some really good sound come out of them. For around $500 I like the ElectroVoice RE 20. It's a very good all around mic. It's great on voice, drums, whatever and it is quite durable.
Mod me down if you wish, but this is part of the problem. I know that sound quality from a $25 soundcard on your PC is studio quality if you took the right steps to dampen the noise in the room you record in. (I don't buy the $9 mic. At least get a $100 Shure SM-58 and a decent preamp. Please for the love of God.)
What do you need a professional recording studio for? SO YOU DON'T SOUND LIKE YOU RECORDED THIS IN YOUR GARAGE! Yes it is CD quality, but CD quality crap doesn't make for a good recording. Let alone the quality of the music being the most important thing.
Seriously, so many people could really use a second pair of ears and don't know it. That's the problem with music today. Real music is doomed as long as this crap continues.
Put your stuff on MP3.com. Then ask yourself. Does anyone care?
The whole notion that Pro Tools and my personal favorite Cool Edit Pro (someone please make a Linux clone or port it with Wine or something!) will make the recording industry sell CDs for less is absurd.
Look guys, everyone here on Slashdot is always talking about the music revolution where the artist produces and markets their own music. Well its here now and guess what? It completely sucks.
Now it is super cheap and easy to get great results at home (if you have a clue what you are doing and most people DON'T!). You don't need expensive recording studios or audio technicians worth beans. The good part is that. I've been able to do a lot of my own production far cheaper than before and it sounds better, because I know what I'm doing and have been trained in the area.
The bad part is that so can Joe Sixpack and his band. Nobody thinks they need help, but 99% of people out there really need a second pair of ears (and someone with experience) more than they need high-tech recording gear.
Recording studios know this. Overproduced or not, Brittany or whatever decent looking bimbo they find on the Mickey Mouse club is easier to market than any good band that isn't pretty (thanks MTV). Now these unpretty, but good muscians are less likely to get a contract, partly because of filesharing.
An intelligent rock(jazz or whatever) band generally has a more sophisticated audience than Brittany Spears. Do most of the Slashdotters download Spears? Probably not. Whereas Boy Band audiences are less into technology.
Isn't it interesting how the free music revolution helped to kill real music? You guys got your free music and from here on out, that's what most of it is going to be worth no matter what Apple or anyone else makes us pay for it.
Whether or not filesharing is actually hurting revenue for bands themselves is another question, but in the eyes of a record company what makes more $$$? Do you think a real group would be more profitable or Brittany? In most cases, Brittany and the Boy Bands. They're also a lot less likely to try and bite the hand that feeds them a la Pearl Jam, Ticketmaster and MTV.
So now these good muscians who can't get a record deal can at least produce themselves, but the results are usually pathetic. Go on MP3.com and show me any really good homerecorded bands. Then tell me how long it took you to find them. Then tell me if you are actually going to go see them in concert.
Love 'em or hate 'em we need record companies, radio to sort through the crap so the cream can rise to the top. Kazaa or any of the other filesharing systems don't really expose you to new things. The only good music broadcast out there these days is at radioparadise.com. Tune in. You'll be glad you did.
Okay, regardless of whether or not Apple ever designs X86 computers, if they did it wouldn't lower their profits. Why? They can still charge more their computers if the OS only runs on their version of x86 hardware! If it runs faster, the Mac faithful will be pleased. Sure someone is likely to hack it to work on a white box PC, but as far as average end users are concerned, it is not a big issue and any piracy issues would be easily offset by the number of new people buying slightly cheaper Windows compatible Macs. (Heck, I might even consider it.)
I also suspect that OSX (if written properly for a small set of sound/video cards) would be faster than Windows on the same machine. Even if it isn't, people crave the Mac experience. Mac users have never minded paying more. They don't even care that Macs are the slowest on the block right now. It's about the user experience folks. Plain and simple.
Wow that is a really good point! I suppose the lawsuit is over in that case.
If you want portable emulation, get a laptop. Then you can play whatever wherever. Hey you wouldn't even need to emulate. There are plenty of good PC games. Okay they don't fit in your pocket, but hey. ;)