By the time you are physically able to reach the pedals and what not you've had years of conditioning to know that the big wheel in front of you turns, and the pedal on the right makes you go faster and the one on the left/middle makes you go slower. If you'd never seen a car before, how long would it take to learn what everything does?
I don't use the Flash plugin... so I can't read a lot of websites I'd like to visit. I also use linux, so again, some websites are out of my reach. Although I don't have a disability, would my situation constitute grounds for legal action?
No, you choose to not use the Flash plugin. I'm pretty sure this guy didn't choose to be blind.
The other half is based on those who listen to the music, most of them opposed to the RIAA.
I don't think that most of the people that care about the music on MTV give a hoot about the RIAA. And if they do, its probably not because of the reasons that you or I would give.
The RIAA is large enough to find talent like the Backn'sync Boys remember? You don't want to make them smaller or something, right?
actually, ATI did a press release. You can search for it on [H]ard OCP, I'm too lazy. But basically the first digit tells the chip's generation relative to each other so:
7xxx first gen radeon
8xxx second gen
9xxx third gen
The Radeon 9000 is not a DX 9 compatible chip, its mroe or less a tweaked 8500. meaning it gives aproxatmetly the same performance as the 8500. Its actually a little less cause the 900 can't do single pass texturing or something.
I'm picking nits but I think you mean 1985. And it couldn't have taken them too long to realize their mistake as I used to have a Mac LC from 1986 with a 40 meg HD in it.
Quartz Extreme doesn't require 32mb of Ram on the vidcard. its just recommended. I read somewhere that a radeon or better was needed because the rage128 and lower can't accept textures whose sizes aren't a power (or maybe multiple I can't remember) of 2. Makes me wonder if the AGP slot is needed, or if its just the chip.
Also how about the XBox communicator? I'll be able to voice chat with my friends while gaming. It's just like Roger Wilco on PC. No console has ever done that.
Alien Front Online for the DC had that capability. http://dreamcast.ign.com/articles/164/164850p1.h tm l
Here's an example. After having all Japanese cars, I recently bought a German roadster. In my car the cruise control knob is right next to the turn signal, which is in turn mounted kind of low. When I first got it, the first few times I tried to make a right turn, I ended up engaging the cruise control. That was disorienting, to say the least. I eventually got used to it and it was just one interface problem.
This has been pointed out elsewhere, but the fact that you are used to pushing one button to do something, and then in a different car, made by a different manufactuor, a button in a similar place does something different, is NOT an interface problem.
Is is a problem if I own a TV with the power button on the right side, then buy a new one with the power button on the left?? I would hope not.
Different designs call for different uses of that design. All of the people that complained about OS X's changes to the Mac interface weren't willing to change their old habits. Give something like this a week, and you'll probably be completely used to it.
Oh, and if you bought an American car, it would probably work different as well.
You obviously aren't in, haven't yet gone to, or have forgotten college. If you are, people around here begin partying on Wendsday night, and don't stop until sometime Sunday(sometimes later).
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So in other words, make a cheap computer that you can use as a set-top box?? The beauty behind the consoles, is that they work. Developers don't need to worry about system specs. They can design a game, and everybody with the playcubebox, can play it. No questions asked. If Sony puts slots for extra RAM, or whatever, developers are just going to turn the market into the mess that is the PC games market.
I think consoles are so sucessful because they are simple. Users don't need to worry about how much RAM they have, or how big their hard drive is. Plug in the game and it works.
Nintendo is still around because they realized that people buy the games. While Sony was out hyping the graphics power of the PS2, Nintendo was showing off the games. Games are how systems make money. Either by selling tons, and generating licence money, or by being great, and forcing people to buy the system to play it.
I should also add that NO add on for consoles has ever been sucessful. Why should Sony waste resources to cater to a very small percentage of the people that would buy it?(blah blah blah, Linux kit. I know about the linux kit. However, its what? $400?? that brings the cost of a PS2 and the linux kit to $700! that's just silly. For $700 I could have a full PC with a TV card to hook up.)
So by your reasoning, it is ok to yell fire in a crowded movie theater? Cause banning my yelling fire in a crowded movie theater would impenge on my rights. Never mind the people that may be trampled in the process.
All of the examples you give have not been proven (and I'm not getting into that). I think that if somehow, someway, somebody came up with a proof that GTA increased auto theft, GTA would be banned. Its one thing to say that this is an expression of free speech. Its another to allow hurtful speech.
KKK members can't run around saying that all niggers should be tortured and killed. They can say that White people are better and blah blah blah, but if in a public protest they start suggesting violence. The cops are gonna come down on them pretty quickly.
If we are responsible for our direct actions, we are responsible for the indirect actions as well. Involuntary Man-slaughter ring a bell? If my actions indirectly kill somebody, I can still be charged.
of course, this was also the porn industry that was throwing its weight behind Divx (circut city). If memory serves there was a/. article about it, but I'm too lazy to look for it.
it was 1984 and it was the first macintosh commercial. It was only shown twice, once for the superbowl, and once somewhere in idaho so that it could be eligible for a cleo.
its called OpenGL. Back in pre OS X days, Apple had its own version of Direct X called Quickdraw. OS X uses OpenGl and Display postscript to render everything.
Macs have had a "right click since OS 8 (which came out ages ago, I can't remember exactly when). You keep the mouse in your left hand, then press control before you click. A little menu pops up and you can have all your commands there.
You can order the PowerMacs with Gf4Ti right now. You just won't get them for a couple months. Apple just sent an email to everybody that ordered one saying there was a delay, and they had the option of canceling their order, or having a 4MX put in and Apple would send them the Ti when they were avaible (you can keep the MX too)
That's the Konami code, and was in half the games they made for the NES. Off the top of my head it was in contra and gradius, I know there are like 15 more, but I can't think of them.
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By the time you are physically able to reach the pedals and what not you've had years of conditioning to know that the big wheel in front of you turns, and the pedal on the right makes you go faster and the one on the left/middle makes you go slower. If you'd never seen a car before, how long would it take to learn what everything does?
Personally,I'm going as Ricky Martin.
I'm wearing a black T-shirt, black jeans, and a Puerto Rician flag around one arm. Then I'm going to yell:
"livin la vida loca"
"shake your bon-bon"
and other such things. I may also shake my own bon-bon. I haven't decided yet.
I don't use the Flash plugin... so I can't read a lot of websites I'd like to visit. I also use linux, so again, some websites are out of my reach. Although I don't have a disability, would my situation constitute grounds for legal action?
No, you choose to not use the Flash plugin. I'm pretty sure this guy didn't choose to be blind.
The other half is based on those who listen to the music, most of them opposed to the RIAA.
I don't think that most of the people that care about the music on MTV give a hoot about the RIAA. And if they do, its probably not because of the reasons that you or I would give.
The RIAA is large enough to find talent like the Backn'sync Boys remember? You don't want to make them smaller or something, right?
Jobs granted Gates a permanent royalty-free license to the Mac look and feel, for use in an obscure little program called "Windows."
The Steve didn't do this. I don't believe he was still with apple when this deal happened. Michael Scully (of Pepsi fame) made it.
Ummm, no. In OS X, when one begins to drag a disk around the desktop the icon of the trash changes into an eject icon.
actually, ATI did a press release. You can search for it on [H]ard OCP, I'm too lazy. But basically the first digit tells the chip's generation relative to each other so:
7xxx first gen radeon
8xxx second gen
9xxx third gen
The Radeon 9000 is not a DX 9 compatible chip, its mroe or less a tweaked 8500. meaning it gives aproxatmetly the same performance as the 8500. Its actually a little less cause the 900 can't do single pass texturing or something.
It's obviously a bunch of white hairs (literally) frowning upon that rubbish on television in favor of the much more civilized environmentalists.
That and the fact that the World Wildlife Fund has been using the monkier WWF longer than the World Wrestling Federation.
I'm picking nits but I think you mean 1985. And it couldn't have taken them too long to realize their mistake as I used to have a Mac LC from 1986 with a 40 meg HD in it.
Not only does MacOS XII sound bad, it's also wrong (it's not MacOS 12, it's MacOS 11).
no, its Mac OS X.II that dot is important.
Quartz Extreme doesn't require 32mb of Ram on the vidcard. its just recommended. I read somewhere that a radeon or better was needed because the rage128 and lower can't accept textures whose sizes aren't a power (or maybe multiple I can't remember) of 2. Makes me wonder if the AGP slot is needed, or if its just the chip.
Also how about the XBox communicator? I'll be able to voice chat with my friends while gaming. It's just like Roger Wilco on PC. No console has ever done that.
h tm l
Alien Front Online for the DC had that capability.
http://dreamcast.ign.com/articles/164/164850p1.
Here's an example. After having all Japanese cars, I recently bought a German roadster. In my car the cruise control knob is right next to the turn signal, which is in turn mounted kind of low. When I first got it, the first few times I tried to make a right turn, I ended up engaging the cruise control. That was disorienting, to say the least. I eventually got used to it and it was just one interface problem.
This has been pointed out elsewhere, but the fact that you are used to pushing one button to do something, and then in a different car, made by a different manufactuor, a button in a similar place does something different, is NOT an interface problem.
Is is a problem if I own a TV with the power button on the right side, then buy a new one with the power button on the left?? I would hope not.
Different designs call for different uses of that design. All of the people that complained about OS X's changes to the Mac interface weren't willing to change their old habits. Give something like this a week, and you'll probably be completely used to it.
Oh, and if you bought an American car, it would probably work different as well.
You obviously aren't in, haven't yet gone to, or have forgotten college. If you are, people around here begin partying on Wendsday night, and don't stop until sometime Sunday(sometimes later).
So in other words, make a cheap computer that you can use as a set-top box?? The beauty behind the consoles, is that they work. Developers don't need to worry about system specs. They can design a game, and everybody with the playcubebox, can play it. No questions asked. If Sony puts slots for extra RAM, or whatever, developers are just going to turn the market into the mess that is the PC games market.
I think consoles are so sucessful because they are simple. Users don't need to worry about how much RAM they have, or how big their hard drive is. Plug in the game and it works.
Nintendo is still around because they realized that people buy the games. While Sony was out hyping the graphics power of the PS2, Nintendo was showing off the games. Games are how systems make money. Either by selling tons, and generating licence money, or by being great, and forcing people to buy the system to play it.
I should also add that NO add on for consoles has ever been sucessful. Why should Sony waste resources to cater to a very small percentage of the people that would buy it?(blah blah blah, Linux kit. I know about the linux kit. However, its what? $400?? that brings the cost of a PS2 and the linux kit to $700! that's just silly. For $700 I could have a full PC with a TV card to hook up.)
Office X doesn't. They rely on VBscript and ActiveX on Windows. Macs and other non-M$ won't be infected.
So by your reasoning, it is ok to yell fire in a crowded movie theater? Cause banning my yelling fire in a crowded movie theater would impenge on my rights. Never mind the people that may be trampled in the process.
All of the examples you give have not been proven (and I'm not getting into that). I think that if somehow, someway, somebody came up with a proof that GTA increased auto theft, GTA would be banned. Its one thing to say that this is an expression of free speech. Its another to allow hurtful speech.
KKK members can't run around saying that all niggers should be tortured and killed. They can say that White people are better and blah blah blah, but if in a public protest they start suggesting violence. The cops are gonna come down on them pretty quickly.
If we are responsible for our direct actions, we are responsible for the indirect actions as well. Involuntary Man-slaughter ring a bell? If my actions indirectly kill somebody, I can still be charged.
of course, this was also the porn industry that was throwing its weight behind Divx (circut city). If memory serves there was a /. article about it, but I'm too lazy to look for it.
The GF4MX is more like another clock speed jump of the GF2s. It doesn't have the programable pixel and texture shaders that the GF3 and 4 have.
it was 1984 and it was the first macintosh commercial. It was only shown twice, once for the superbowl, and once somewhere in idaho so that it could be eligible for a cleo.
but does a 66MHz CPU have enough cycles to play MP3s and run an application in the foreground?
There's a seperate DSP to handle MP3 playback, so the processor won't be handling that.
its called OpenGL. Back in pre OS X days, Apple had its own version of Direct X called Quickdraw. OS X uses OpenGl and Display postscript to render everything.
Macs have had a "right click since OS 8 (which came out ages ago, I can't remember exactly when). You keep the mouse in your left hand, then press control before you click. A little menu pops up and you can have all your commands there.
You can order the PowerMacs with Gf4Ti right now. You just won't get them for a couple months. Apple just sent an email to everybody that ordered one saying there was a delay, and they had the option of canceling their order, or having a 4MX put in and Apple would send them the Ti when they were avaible (you can keep the MX too)
That's the Konami code, and was in half the games they made for the NES. Off the top of my head it was in contra and gradius, I know there are like 15 more, but I can't think of them.