The technology is different. Try playing some of your old DOS games in Vista. Can you play Monkey Island on Vista or XP? Not without an emulator like ScummVM. It's the same thing between the Xbox and the Xbox 360. Plus, you have the additional challenge of supporting games that moved from an x86 platform to PowerPC.
I can't? Want me to try?
The catch is that you probably won't have sound or music.
Ah, right. See, I just assumed no one would be stupid enough to store the images in the database that could be better served as files from a static webserver. Silly me!
1. Other than MySQL, it doesn't specify the software in use (it implies Apache Tomcat, but that is not explicitly stated), except... 2. Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool. Pardon me if I refuse to put any faith into tools by Redmond. Particularly since, if Tomcat was in use, MWAST is being used instead of Apache's own ab tool. 3. Why wasn't Java 1.5 tested? By definition, Java 1.4 means that you're testing vs. EJB 2.x instead of EJB 3.x. I don't know what changes have been made between the two, as I haven't learned EJB, but I'm assuming there have been some changes between the two, for better or for worse. 4. What's causing the OutOfMemory errors? If a pair of servers are falling over at 16 simultaneous requests for a 301 row dataset, there's a major problem.
Mac OS X can sleep through anything short of a disk burn. I have seen very rare cases where vendor specific hardware didn't wake up properly, but that's probably a vendor driver issue.
Apple lets third parties right drivers? That's news to me!
When doesn't OSX Intel run on non-Apple machines without hacks then?
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Actually, I'd like to see the numbers for cable Internet service as well.
Actually, "quirks mode" refers to the way earlier versions of Netscape displayed pages. That's why IE also has a "quirks mode" activated when doctype sniffing fails.
OK, when I saw the mention that this was a RoughlyDrafted article, I figured I'd do something fun: Without looking at the article, I'm going to try guessing how many paragraphs it is until the first Microsoft bash.
My guess is 5.
Now to count... Wow, I was way off. The first one (veiled insult) doesn't appear until paragraph 11.
However, I did correctly predict that it would bash Microsoft, so I was right in one respect.
I can summarize this article in one sentence: Apple doesn't blog because Microsoft sucks.
Seriously, why do you continue linking to this guy's articles? Every single one, whether it has to do with Microsoft or not, eventually devolves into an extended bash on Microsoft. Even if the information in it is incorrect. Even if it means applying double standards (one for Apple, one for Microsoft). I mean, I don't exactly love Microsoft either, but they should at least convey correct information. There's a reason why Digg users bury his stories (well, maybe not since his 60+ shill accounts came about).
On Windows, you need to have installed and configured Java first, which is a hurdle. Even then,.jar applications won't just run when you double-click them, though JaWS does work.
That's funny, I can double-click to run.jar applications on my Windows install.
You're right about having to install java first. Not about configure, though. Oddly enough, the installer takes care of all the configuration for you.
Given that the alternative was to have Microsoft's version of Java installed (back when XP first came out Microsoft hadn't yet lost the Sun v. Microsoft case), it's probably for the best that users must install Java separately. Microsoft is, after all, a sore loser. See Also:.NET.
With OSX, however, there is also the problem that Java tends to lag behind the Sun releases. Java 6 (1.6) should come out before Leopard does, but given Apple's previous track record, Leopard won't have it.
Wow, you're a bright one aren't you? Take a look at Mac hardware... it's practically IDENTICAL to PC hardware, including that of graphics processors. The problem isn't hardware, it's software companies not willing to port games on mac. And from what I've seen since I bought my MacBook, any games that are on here run so damn well that it's not funny.
It's also been that way for all of a year now?
Then again, software these days rarely, if ever, interact directly with the hardware. APIs are what matters now, and unfortunately APIs are something Microsoft has in spades.
Microsoft pushes for developers on Windows to use DirectX so that the game they create aren't portable. If they were to use OpenGL, or even worse for Microsoft, SDL, they could build portable games. Do you really think Microsoft wants that?
Digg users just think he stories are very biased pro-Apple
That's probably his stories are very biased pro-Apple. It took me one look at the Roughly Drafted Magazine page a few weeks ago when his site hosted the Leopard vs. Vista article (linked to here on/.) to realize that. I didn't even have to read the aforementioned comparison, because I could already tell what it was going to say. The sad part is, I navigated to the RDM page to find Page 1 of the Leopard vs. Vista review thinking that maybe someone actually did a useful comparison of the two.
, and also are annoyed because he has dozens of digging sockpuppets.
I'd think that would be against the Digg rules, but since I've never liked Digg (because its "Digg this" links promote karma-whoring), I wouldn't know.
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Actually, don't buy it on a console... at least not the PS2... if you hate long load times.
I can't? Want me to try?
The catch is that you probably won't have sound or music.
The only special software I needed was to rip the floppy boot image from the original Windows CD so I could boot from the CD.
I prefer Professor X Optical myself.
Ah, right. See, I just assumed no one would be stupid enough to store the images in the database that could be better served as files from a static webserver. Silly me!
I see the following problems with the article.
1. Other than MySQL, it doesn't specify the software in use (it implies Apache Tomcat, but that is not explicitly stated), except...
2. Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool. Pardon me if I refuse to put any faith into tools by Redmond. Particularly since, if Tomcat was in use, MWAST is being used instead of Apache's own ab tool.
3. Why wasn't Java 1.5 tested? By definition, Java 1.4 means that you're testing vs. EJB 2.x instead of EJB 3.x. I don't know what changes have been made between the two, as I haven't learned EJB, but I'm assuming there have been some changes between the two, for better or for worse.
4. What's causing the OutOfMemory errors? If a pair of servers are falling over at 16 simultaneous requests for a 301 row dataset, there's a major problem.
Just some thoughts.
What makes you think they're limited to those two choices?
They could be the evil Carpathian wizard guy trapped inside the portait!
You can shoot a foot more than once.
DiVX and Windows Media are "pretty much" standard, too.
However, if you want to go by real, ISO standards, that leaves the various MPEG suites, of which MPEG-1 is the most widespread.
Apple lets third parties right drivers? That's news to me!
When doesn't OSX Intel run on non-Apple machines without hacks then?
Actually, I'd like to see the numbers for cable Internet service as well.
Lets see if I can figure out the year from some obvious source... lets see... not the submittion text...
5 8252
Oh, hey, how about the article url!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/09/0
Lets see... today is 2006/12/09... nope, I'm not seeing it.
Not only that, but 90% of the time those sounds are from Donkey Kong.
Actually, "quirks mode" refers to the way earlier versions of Netscape displayed pages. That's why IE also has a "quirks mode" activated when doctype sniffing fails.
OK, when I saw the mention that this was a RoughlyDrafted article, I figured I'd do something fun: Without looking at the article, I'm going to try guessing how many paragraphs it is until the first Microsoft bash.
My guess is 5.
Now to count... Wow, I was way off. The first one (veiled insult) doesn't appear until paragraph 11.
However, I did correctly predict that it would bash Microsoft, so I was right in one respect.
I can summarize this article in one sentence: Apple doesn't blog because Microsoft sucks.
Seriously, why do you continue linking to this guy's articles? Every single one, whether it has to do with Microsoft or not, eventually devolves into an extended bash on Microsoft. Even if the information in it is incorrect. Even if it means applying double standards (one for Apple, one for Microsoft). I mean, I don't exactly love Microsoft either, but they should at least convey correct information. There's a reason why Digg users bury his stories (well, maybe not since his 60+ shill accounts came about).
It also explains why no one can seem to read the code.
I don't particularly care for turn-based strategy, so I wouldn't know which ones are good, let alone how well they sell.
Spore is being developed by Maxis, an EA-owned company.
That's PC as in Personal Computer, not PS as in PlayStation.
It sounds like your implying that turn-based strategy games don't sell well, which I'm sure would surprise Sid Meier.
As an addendum, Rogue Entertainment, who created American Macgee's Alice, has since gone under.
That's funny, I can double-click to run
You're right about having to install java first. Not about configure, though. Oddly enough, the installer takes care of all the configuration for you.
Given that the alternative was to have Microsoft's version of Java installed (back when XP first came out Microsoft hadn't yet lost the Sun v. Microsoft case), it's probably for the best that users must install Java separately. Microsoft is, after all, a sore loser. See Also:
With OSX, however, there is also the problem that Java tends to lag behind the Sun releases. Java 6 (1.6) should come out before Leopard does, but given Apple's previous track record, Leopard won't have it.
You log in and run interactive programs on your server? You might want to look up what a server is for.
It's also been that way for all of a year now?
Then again, software these days rarely, if ever, interact directly with the hardware. APIs are what matters now, and unfortunately APIs are something Microsoft has in spades.
Microsoft pushes for developers on Windows to use DirectX so that the game they create aren't portable. If they were to use OpenGL, or even worse for Microsoft, SDL, they could build portable games. Do you really think Microsoft wants that?
That's probably his stories are very biased pro-Apple. It took me one look at the Roughly Drafted Magazine page a few weeks ago when his site hosted the Leopard vs. Vista article (linked to here on
I'd think that would be against the Digg rules, but since I've never liked Digg (because its "Digg this" links promote karma-whoring), I wouldn't know.