Oh come now. Just try to install Warcraft III with Cedega.
I'm serious, that's the only game I was really hoping to play with Cedega when I tried it out. It flopped hard core, yet, WC3 is on their list of supported games with a flag indicating that it is playable.
I'm all for female influence in games, assuming said females are just as creatively genius as their male counterparts. However, I find it ludicrous to say that women like The SIMS because women helped make it. I know 3 very different girls who all like the game. My observations point to them enjoying the fact that the game is braindead easy, obvious, and akin to playing house as a little kid. Would you claim that those aspects of the game exist because women helped design it?
On copying them to a memstick, you should know that a 2.5 hr movie at 30fps at the highest resolution that the PSP will support from a memstick (not the resolution of the screen, that's reserved for UMD movies only bleh.) will take about 840mb.
I can stan anime at half framerate, that's 420mb. Watched all of Cowboy Bebop this way in pieces over the course of a couple days where I was away from home and bored. I won't pay 150 dollars for a 1gb memstick.
I sold my PSP on ebay recently because it's not worth the money. No good games, disparate media features that require basic hacking to make useful, no homebrew without hacks. Screw this, I'll buy a portable dvd player that supports playing MP3 from the dvd for $300 to go along with my 200 dvd collection!
Sony screwed up on the PSP, too bad most people are dumb suckers and accept it anyway.
How many chipsets does Darwin currently support? Whose chipsets are they? Who will write the drivers for all of the other chipsets out there? I don't think it would be hard at all to make installing OS X on a non-apple-specifc intel box really difficult. Even if you can port all the necessary drivers to Darwin, that won't do you any good if there are random checks strewn throughout the entire higher level OS.
What if to defeat this situation, we use the same methods that crackers would use to defeat things like LPT dongles or usb dongles, etc. Apple can simply break that fix with every security update that they release.
I think it will still be possible, I just don't think it's going to be as easy as some of you think.
And I for one like OS X because of "it just works" mentality. If that is violated in any way, then it's not worth the trouble to me.
A recent article posted on slashdot has indicated with evidence that apple's kernel performance is harrowing factor in the server market. Apple's hardware is pretty, and they have kept themselves away from supporting a million drivers by using hardware that nobody else wants to. G5's may be nifty but they are also expensive, by the shear fact that their production volume is so low. So here's the plan:
1) Make changes to darwin/osx that would require recompiling and possibly partially rewriting some software. 2) Design some DRM/Piracy Prevention into OS X 3) Only release this new version on X86.
The advantages here are two-fold. First you get to move to a varied processor market, that is already cheap due to mass production. Second, you get to have a much faster operating system so someone might actually WANT to run MySQL on an xserve without installing linux.
I don't know about you, but, to me the only reason to pay out the fat cash for the low performing apple machines is the awesome OS X operating system. Perhaps apple thinks that it's a good time to compete in software. I firmly believe that software is Apple's boon anyway.
I see this move as making Apple more potentially competitive in several markets. Operating Systems, Servers, and their current market of 'designer personal computers' or whatever you want to label computers chosen for asthetics over performance.
Furthermore, once they are on x86, what would stop them from inviting WINE to play natively in Aqua and giving some of that Apple magic action to get installing windows software onto your non-windows machine a pleasant experience for once?
So to recap:
- Lower priced hardware due to pre-existing volume production. - Broader software customer base. - Opportunity to compete where they do best.
I would pay $300 for OS X, $100 for point upgrades at their current schedule, if I didn't have to pay $2000 for a decent machine to use it on!
If you read the ratings on the existing flash drives, you'll see that they are designed to last 8 years, 8million read/write cycles. I imagine that is longer than most anyone geeky enough to buy one will need it due to upgrade cycles and etc.
That link there is to a memtech 4gb drive, and I believe the currency is Australian dollars. That's just for comparison to this 4gb announcement. If you go to their list of memtech devices you'll see the 28gb UDMA66 IDE drives priced at around $16,808.04... yeah, my $300 solid state computer isn't going to see one of these babies anytime soon.
I am a proponent of open systems. I generally don't care if the source is open. I prefer software platforms that allow me to develop software, interact with the system, and solve problems without mussing around with licensing issues and buying expensive development kits.
The platforms that enable these choices are the ones I prefer to suggest to my friends. The "open source" world of software isn't attractive to me because of the source code being open, it's attractive to me because I can file a bug report or join a mailing list and actually influence the development of the product. Of course, I am a programmer and have in several instances modified an application to suit my needs but, that's not what I usually leverage in this community.
The electrical aspect of this problem makes it, shall we say, untenable. So, I suggest solving the problem in an architectural way. Suppose you develop a form factor for transformers, where the plug from the transformer to the AC source is not attached directly to the transformer, something common on laptop ac adapters. The plug itself is removable and OEM's can provide varying sizes for your needs. And the connector on the transformer for the power cable (AC Source) is standardized so that someone could make a 'rack' of sorts to plug that transformer into directly (with cooling space and so forth). Size variation needed by larger applications would work just like rackmount cases, in unit format i.e. 1u for your mac mini, 3u for your 500 watt 7.1 digital surround processor and receiver.
The problem I have is with the powerstrips and their utter lack of a good transformer solution. I'll get around to this one day but I intend to get a series of short (3-6") extension cables to make it so one power strip will hold all of my various transformers. Then I'll probably just hang them somewhere on the side of my desk or tie them together with those nifty little velcro strips.
Another wish of mine is that everyone would use the same stupid form factor for transformers. If you look at Apple's transformer it's perfect for the usual powerstrip configuration, same thing with Nokia's latest charger adapters. They are no wider than the regular plugs out there and they grow in such a direction that you can put them side by side without issue. Now one example where they came close but completely screwed up is Linksys. At least some of their products have this thin power adapter that looks a lot like it would be great on powerstrips but it's turned 90 degrees. This provides excellent wall plug support but that's really not where you should be plugging these in! Now, if they used this format and made it so the blades could be rotated 90 degrees then it would probably be my favorite.
Development for Symbian devices is open. Just take a look at Frozen Bubble for series 60 phones as an example.
As for phones, the best smartphone on the market is UIQ/Symbian (Sony Ericsson P910a) and a variety of other phones use this excellent embedded OS.
I personally bought an N-Gage QD simply to play with Symbian.
Best live cd I have used in years is the latest SuSE 9.2 Live cd intended for demoing SuSE Linux. Great hardware support, slick interface, very comfortable to use. Also up and running very quickly.
Yes, well, yes and no. Some people are honest enough to say they are doing the things you don't want to know they are doing and others are lying about it. i.e. I say I'm looking at pr0n when I'm not rather often because it's amusing in conversation... as for advice for setting these rules, risking cliche in a metaphor, you can't prevent one from getting a hold of a knife, but, you can teach them how, when, and where to use it. The same thing goes for all forms of information, including explicit content you just don't want them to have. Have some faith in your children.
Let's watch all the idiotic redneck fools who glance briefly at the media provided propoganda. We'll see them noticing China, thinking 'red', then seeing Linux, and thinking 'red'... Ignorance is the biggest obstacle for free software these days. I hope the morons in office don't try to exploit this in a negative manner. As usual, it will probably go unnoticed, and end up meaning absolutely nothing, but, I can't help imagining what horrors could come of it. (I'll let you imagine the good stuff, it's easier)
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I'm glad the article has pictures, I've always wanted to know what a frightened troll looked like!
Oh come now. Just try to install Warcraft III with Cedega.
I'm serious, that's the only game I was really hoping to play with Cedega when I tried it out. It flopped hard core, yet, WC3 is on their list of supported games with a flag indicating that it is playable.
Lies.
I'm all for female influence in games, assuming said females are just as creatively genius as their male counterparts. However, I find it ludicrous to say that women like The SIMS because women helped make it. I know 3 very different girls who all like the game. My observations point to them enjoying the fact that the game is braindead easy, obvious, and akin to playing house as a little kid. Would you claim that those aspects of the game exist because women helped design it?
Pffft.
On copying them to a memstick, you should know that a 2.5 hr movie at 30fps at the highest resolution that the PSP will support from a memstick (not the resolution of the screen, that's reserved for UMD movies only bleh.) will take about 840mb.
I can stan anime at half framerate, that's 420mb. Watched all of Cowboy Bebop this way in pieces over the course of a couple days where I was away from home and bored. I won't pay 150 dollars for a 1gb memstick.
I sold my PSP on ebay recently because it's not worth the money. No good games, disparate media features that require basic hacking to make useful, no homebrew without hacks. Screw this, I'll buy a portable dvd player that supports playing MP3 from the dvd for $300 to go along with my 200 dvd collection!
Sony screwed up on the PSP, too bad most people are dumb suckers and accept it anyway.
How many chipsets does Darwin currently support? Whose chipsets are they? Who will write the drivers for all of the other chipsets out there? I don't think it would be hard at all to make installing OS X on a non-apple-specifc intel box really difficult. Even if you can port all the necessary drivers to Darwin, that won't do you any good if there are random checks strewn throughout the entire higher level OS.
What if to defeat this situation, we use the same methods that crackers would use to defeat things like LPT dongles or usb dongles, etc. Apple can simply break that fix with every security update that they release.
I think it will still be possible, I just don't think it's going to be as easy as some of you think.
And I for one like OS X because of "it just works" mentality. If that is violated in any way, then it's not worth the trouble to me.
A recent article posted on slashdot has indicated with evidence that apple's kernel performance is harrowing factor in the server market. Apple's hardware is pretty, and they have kept themselves away from supporting a million drivers by using hardware that nobody else wants to. G5's may be nifty but they are also expensive, by the shear fact that their production volume is so low. So here's the plan:
1) Make changes to darwin/osx that would require recompiling and possibly partially rewriting some software.
2) Design some DRM/Piracy Prevention into OS X
3) Only release this new version on X86.
The advantages here are two-fold. First you get to move to a varied processor market, that is already cheap due to mass production. Second, you get to have a much faster operating system so someone might actually WANT to run MySQL on an xserve without installing linux.
I don't know about you, but, to me the only reason to pay out the fat cash for the low performing apple machines is the awesome OS X operating system. Perhaps apple thinks that it's a good time to compete in software. I firmly believe that software is Apple's boon anyway.
I see this move as making Apple more potentially competitive in several markets. Operating Systems, Servers, and their current market of 'designer personal computers' or whatever you want to label computers chosen for asthetics over performance.
Furthermore, once they are on x86, what would stop them from inviting WINE to play natively in Aqua and giving some of that Apple magic action to get installing windows software onto your non-windows machine a pleasant experience for once?
So to recap:
- Lower priced hardware due to pre-existing volume production.
- Broader software customer base.
- Opportunity to compete where they do best.
I would pay $300 for OS X, $100 for point upgrades at their current schedule, if I didn't have to pay $2000 for a decent machine to use it on!
If you read the ratings on the existing flash drives, you'll see that they are designed to last 8 years, 8million read/write cycles. I imagine that is longer than most anyone geeky enough to buy one will need it due to upgrade cycles and etc.
a sp?supplierid=77&suppliercode=HM2550-4096
... yeah, my $300 solid state computer isn't going to see one of these babies anytime soon.
H -4096-901&mscssid=97L2ES4HAQPR8NF7WTHGT5XFWJHX0LC4
However, the real issue here is price:
http://www.instantit.com.au/browse/ProductDetail.
That link there is to a memtech 4gb drive, and I believe the currency is Australian dollars. That's just for comparison to this 4gb announcement. If you go to their list of memtech devices you'll see the 28gb UDMA66 IDE drives priced at around $16,808.04
This:
http://www.esend.com/sandisk/product.asp?sku=SDCF
is much cheaper anyway. Although I doubt it guaranteeds 8Mil. read/write cycles (more likely in the range of 200-300k or less).
Makes me wonder how much samsung wants future laptops to cost.
I am a proponent of open systems. I generally don't care if the source is open. I prefer software platforms that allow me to develop software, interact with the system, and solve problems without mussing around with licensing issues and buying expensive development kits.
The platforms that enable these choices are the ones I prefer to suggest to my friends. The "open source" world of software isn't attractive to me because of the source code being open, it's attractive to me because I can file a bug report or join a mailing list and actually influence the development of the product. Of course, I am a programmer and have in several instances modified an application to suit my needs but, that's not what I usually leverage in this community.
The electrical aspect of this problem makes it, shall we say, untenable. So, I suggest solving the problem in an architectural way. Suppose you develop a form factor for transformers, where the plug from the transformer to the AC source is not attached directly to the transformer, something common on laptop ac adapters. The plug itself is removable and OEM's can provide varying sizes for your needs. And the connector on the transformer for the power cable (AC Source) is standardized so that someone could make a 'rack' of sorts to plug that transformer into directly (with cooling space and so forth). Size variation needed by larger applications would work just like rackmount cases, in unit format i.e. 1u for your mac mini, 3u for your 500 watt 7.1 digital surround processor and receiver.
The problem I have is with the powerstrips and their utter lack of a good transformer solution. I'll get around to this one day but I intend to get a series of short (3-6") extension cables to make it so one power strip will hold all of my various transformers. Then I'll probably just hang them somewhere on the side of my desk or tie them together with those nifty little velcro strips.
Another wish of mine is that everyone would use the same stupid form factor for transformers. If you look at Apple's transformer it's perfect for the usual powerstrip configuration, same thing with Nokia's latest charger adapters. They are no wider than the regular plugs out there and they grow in such a direction that you can put them side by side without issue. Now one example where they came close but completely screwed up is Linksys. At least some of their products have this thin power adapter that looks a lot like it would be great on powerstrips but it's turned 90 degrees. This provides excellent wall plug support but that's really not where you should be plugging these in! Now, if they used this format and made it so the blades could be rotated 90 degrees then it would probably be my favorite.
*sigh* sorry for the book.
Development for Symbian devices is open. Just take a look at Frozen Bubble for series 60 phones as an example. As for phones, the best smartphone on the market is UIQ/Symbian (Sony Ericsson P910a) and a variety of other phones use this excellent embedded OS. I personally bought an N-Gage QD simply to play with Symbian.
Best live cd I have used in years is the latest SuSE 9.2 Live cd intended for demoing SuSE Linux. Great hardware support, slick interface, very comfortable to use. Also up and running very quickly.
This was already posted (at least, an identical topic) within the last year... in case you were wondering where you had already seen this before.
Yes, well, yes and no. Some people are honest enough to say they are doing the things you don't want to know they are doing and others are lying about it. i.e. I say I'm looking at pr0n when I'm not rather often because it's amusing in conversation... as for advice for setting these rules, risking cliche in a metaphor, you can't prevent one from getting a hold of a knife, but, you can teach them how, when, and where to use it. The same thing goes for all forms of information, including explicit content you just don't want them to have. Have some faith in your children.
I'm probably posting this to the wrong place, but, whatever... where I come from, "enviromentally" is misspelled, it should be "environmentally"..
Let's watch all the idiotic redneck fools who glance briefly at the media provided propoganda. We'll see them noticing China, thinking 'red', then seeing Linux, and thinking 'red'... Ignorance is the biggest obstacle for free software these days. I hope the morons in office don't try to exploit this in a negative manner. As usual, it will probably go unnoticed, and end up meaning absolutely nothing, but, I can't help imagining what horrors could come of it. (I'll let you imagine the good stuff, it's easier)
There is a Linux and OS X client being developed now, I have this information straight from an everquest developer.