konfabulator is this java based package for the mac that displayed simular looking moduals onn the screen... it was given this big to do simply cause it used Java, and thus easy to program by anyone with a litle knowlage
The problem was some of the reporters started touting about it like it was a new thing (it wasnt) and it gained this HUGE following from a lot of people who dont know the history of the app so they all think Apple ripped it off, which is not the case, it was the reverse, but apple stopped using it when it didnt see a market for it, as did microsoft.
The biggest problem is the the guy who created it is now making himself out to be a shareware martyr whos fighting the man who stole his app.... which is bogus and just downright stupid cause he didnt make anything new, he just reused a old idea in a new package
its only too bad I posted, cause your post deserves to be modded up!
This is exactly a lot of peopls points, the idea is simular, but Apples execution of the idea is well beyond what they did with konfabulator. It may be simular in idea, but in the end Apple did it much better....
Its funny but people pissed their pants about "oh apples copying this, apples copying that" but talk about copyrighting a idea and people go apeshit.... well thats all this is is a idea, the underlying implementations are totally different
no this is to reduce clutter i think, im sure it will either be a option of one or the other or just a normal CD release.
as it is its pretty hard to pirate a copy of Panther from CD.... I tried making a backup of it but they dont boot and you need to boot from a CD to install....
not saying its imposible to pirate, just not worth the effort you go through, at least in my mind
I have taken a look at it and currently own Konfabulator, and my honest impression is this.
While dashboard might or might not be a konfabulator clone, it does it MUCH better than konfabulator could ever do it.
One of the nasties of using konfabulator aside from the hideous amount of prossesor usage it seems to take and its tendancy to kill your system if your not online and using a widget that grabs online feeds, is the fact that well, every interface is different between widgets and sometimes they either dont work, or are hard to move around or close. The new version of Konfabulator fixed some of this, but its still bad. Apple has changed this, by not only making the moduals easy to close or move, and forcing them to keep simular preference interfaces, they also added the expose powered hide feature.
Honestly I dont hate Konfabulator and wish it well, I think its creator is a ass as to the fact that he doesnt care about the fact that both Apple and Microsoft did it first and he was just reimplementing a old idea.... beleiving the PR all the media outlets put out about it being this amazing app, but he did create it and i think more importantly he renewed interest in a feature a lot of us didnt use back in the OS 6/7 Win98 days.... Here is hoping the modual makers can bring their work to Dashboard with minimal fuss.... cause honestly those are the people who made konfabulator shine, not the guy who made it.
I was poor and only owned a few games and rented the rest, as well as didnt get a NES untill SM3 came out, I would buy these games simply cause i didnt get them and would rather play them on my gameboy than my NES....
How To Enter. You will automatically be entered into the Promotion by: 1) downloading a song from iTunes (any Free Download Single of the Week will be deemed an ineligible entry); or 2) a free alternative means of sending an email to Apple at itunes100@apple.com via the iTunes "Tell a Friend" feature (a song download or Tell a Friend email will be deemed an "Entry(ies"). The "Tell a Friend" feature can be easily accessed at iTunes by selecting a song, and clicking the "Tell a Friend" link that is displayed for that song. One Entry will be automatically submitted for each song downloaded or Tell a Friend email sent. The Promotion begins following the downloading of the 95,000,000th iTunes song, and ends with the downloading of the 100 millionth Entry ("End Date"). Only Entries submitted in this time period will be accepted.
Its funny cause Apple responded with that ad in public, while in private fought (and won) the law that had originally classified it as a supercomputer, showing that a gigaflop was a little low as the classification for a Supercomputer.
Who wants to make a bet this is yet again 9/11 hysterics, all completely unfounded and put forward simply because the men in charge couldnt plug in a lightbulb without help.... Remeber we ARE talking about the same group of people who have trashed their own computer system to the point to prompt one senator to go out buy his own macs and hire a IT guy to set up their own network to stay off the Capitols which is apparently virus filled and buggy.
IS THE GREATEST GAME EVER.... well at least till the next greatest game ever.
But seriously in terms of ease of use vs serious simulation I think the Harvest Moon series has it hands down.. I can sit there for hours just tending my farm and raising chickens not to mention its got some action and RPG elements tacked on for good measure.
yeah this has been known foor a long time, problem was nobody used it which was a shame, in the PC world that connector would have made life 100x better
not really all that funny personally, yeah macs dont have a lot of games, but we DO have games that are new releases, we DONT have to throw away our computers (as my overclocked B/WG3 can attest to) And honestly WHO PLAYS MORE THAN 3 GAMES AT A TIME!
Seriously I havent even played any games on my mac, and i just bought 3 (Jedi Acadamy, Age of Mythology, and a cheap copy of Alien V Predator cause i didnt feel like buying 2 and hadnt played the first one) The only game I have been playing was the copy of FA-18 hornet Im beta testing. We have Unreal Tourn 2004... what more do you really want?
which is exactly what happened. Today the Mac is primarily a work computer while the PC gets the games..... now Jobs wants the opposite.
But seriously, who back then thought that someone would blow 3000 dollars on a GAMING machine
Best Buy shot itself in the foot again with Apple..... they struggled for ages to get iPod sales, got it taken away when they failed to live up to Apples reseller policy and then begged to get it back.
And with this it just seems like Apple will pull the plug on both its iPod and monitor sales at best buy
you would be surprised..... there ARE people out there who would actually save their money just to say they have a player thats better than someone elses
Look at any of the none Apple Authorized Retailers out there and its the same thing.... No one in the know buys from them because they overcharge, have poor work adittudes, and generally have a very unorganized store in general.
I have been in only 2 third party dealers for Macs (4 in general) and honestly, I WONT step foot into them again... I have plenty of good third party places that work off a website and sell reconditioned macs, there is CompUSA, there are 3 Apple stores near me. PLUS I get a education discount that only my school can give me........ WHY WOULD I WANT TO GO SOMEPLACE ELSE?
right and there is still a lvl 45 noob runningt around making a ass out of himself and ruining everyone elses enjoyment of the game...
Might not be cheating per se, but it IS wrong and I am not sorry to see them go.... If it means one less shit for brains with no clue running around my game and training 20 monsters only to realize he couldnt take them and instead zones them onto me, because he didnt want to learn how to play the game the right way, then Im happy they got screwed.... why dont they make money the real way like the rest of us who sit in nasty cubicals or IT departments
Thats a legit thing. Its actually off the list because Apple still hasnt sent over all of the xserves it was supposed to, and VT being stupid as fuck, sold off their entire computer cluster.
sadly there are a LOT of geeks out there who dont even know what the hitchhikers guide IS....
worse, somehow I think they will only know about it through the movie they are filming.
In NJ everything is covered under a lemon law, breaks 3 times you must get a replacement otherwise the state will (and has) press charges against the company.
Im going on time 3 with my iBook...
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The problem was some of the reporters started touting about it like it was a new thing (it wasnt) and it gained this HUGE following from a lot of people who dont know the history of the app so they all think Apple ripped it off, which is not the case, it was the reverse, but apple stopped using it when it didnt see a market for it, as did microsoft.
The biggest problem is the the guy who created it is now making himself out to be a shareware martyr whos fighting the man who stole his app.... which is bogus and just downright stupid cause he didnt make anything new, he just reused a old idea in a new package
This is exactly a lot of peopls points, the idea is simular, but Apples execution of the idea is well beyond what they did with konfabulator. It may be simular in idea, but in the end Apple did it much better....
Its funny but people pissed their pants about "oh apples copying this, apples copying that" but talk about copyrighting a idea and people go apeshit.... well thats all this is is a idea, the underlying implementations are totally different
can vouch for this, my G3 systems ( a b/w and a iBookSE) work GREAT with panther and the fastest one is a 466mhz with a 66mhz buss
as it is its pretty hard to pirate a copy of Panther from CD.... I tried making a backup of it but they dont boot and you need to boot from a CD to install....
not saying its imposible to pirate, just not worth the effort you go through, at least in my mind
While dashboard might or might not be a konfabulator clone, it does it MUCH better than konfabulator could ever do it.
One of the nasties of using konfabulator aside from the hideous amount of prossesor usage it seems to take and its tendancy to kill your system if your not online and using a widget that grabs online feeds, is the fact that well, every interface is different between widgets and sometimes they either dont work, or are hard to move around or close. The new version of Konfabulator fixed some of this, but its still bad. Apple has changed this, by not only making the moduals easy to close or move, and forcing them to keep simular preference interfaces, they also added the expose powered hide feature.
Honestly I dont hate Konfabulator and wish it well, I think its creator is a ass as to the fact that he doesnt care about the fact that both Apple and Microsoft did it first and he was just reimplementing a old idea.... beleiving the PR all the media outlets put out about it being this amazing app, but he did create it and i think more importantly he renewed interest in a feature a lot of us didnt use back in the OS 6/7 Win98 days.... Here is hoping the modual makers can bring their work to Dashboard with minimal fuss.... cause honestly those are the people who made konfabulator shine, not the guy who made it.
I was poor and only owned a few games and rented the rest, as well as didnt get a NES untill SM3 came out, I would buy these games simply cause i didnt get them and would rather play them on my gameboy than my NES....
Cause hes telling people to stop looking at the site.
How To Enter. You will automatically be entered into the Promotion by: 1) downloading a song from iTunes (any Free Download Single of the Week will be deemed an ineligible entry); or 2) a free alternative means of sending an email to Apple at itunes100@apple.com via the iTunes "Tell a Friend" feature (a song download or Tell a Friend email will be deemed an "Entry(ies"). The "Tell a Friend" feature can be easily accessed at iTunes by selecting a song, and clicking the "Tell a Friend" link that is displayed for that song. One Entry will be automatically submitted for each song downloaded or Tell a Friend email sent. The Promotion begins following the downloading of the 95,000,000th iTunes song, and ends with the downloading of the 100 millionth Entry ("End Date"). Only Entries submitted in this time period will be accepted.
Who wants to make a bet this is yet again 9/11 hysterics, all completely unfounded and put forward simply because the men in charge couldnt plug in a lightbulb without help.... Remeber we ARE talking about the same group of people who have trashed their own computer system to the point to prompt one senator to go out buy his own macs and hire a IT guy to set up their own network to stay off the Capitols which is apparently virus filled and buggy.
No one is using UPNP that I know of.
But seriously in terms of ease of use vs serious simulation I think the Harvest Moon series has it hands down.. I can sit there for hours just tending my farm and raising chickens not to mention its got some action and RPG elements tacked on for good measure.
Great Game!
yeah this has been known foor a long time, problem was nobody used it which was a shame, in the PC world that connector would have made life 100x better
Seriously I havent even played any games on my mac, and i just bought 3 (Jedi Acadamy, Age of Mythology, and a cheap copy of Alien V Predator cause i didnt feel like buying 2 and hadnt played the first one) The only game I have been playing was the copy of FA-18 hornet Im beta testing. We have Unreal Tourn 2004... what more do you really want?
which is exactly what happened. Today the Mac is primarily a work computer while the PC gets the games..... now Jobs wants the opposite. But seriously, who back then thought that someone would blow 3000 dollars on a GAMING machine
plus they ALSO sell Apples monitors, which is a lot more than $20 of profit
And with this it just seems like Apple will pull the plug on both its iPod and monitor sales at best buy
spotted dick, bangers and mash, bangers and balls, FAGS!?!?!?!, and they wonder why Americans dont understand them despite knowing the same language.
speaking of which, what on gods holy earth IS bangers and mash!!!!!
you would be surprised..... there ARE people out there who would actually save their money just to say they have a player thats better than someone elses
I have been in only 2 third party dealers for Macs (4 in general) and honestly, I WONT step foot into them again... I have plenty of good third party places that work off a website and sell reconditioned macs, there is CompUSA, there are 3 Apple stores near me. PLUS I get a education discount that only my school can give me........ WHY WOULD I WANT TO GO SOMEPLACE ELSE?
Might not be cheating per se, but it IS wrong and I am not sorry to see them go.... If it means one less shit for brains with no clue running around my game and training 20 monsters only to realize he couldnt take them and instead zones them onto me, because he didnt want to learn how to play the game the right way, then Im happy they got screwed.... why dont they make money the real way like the rest of us who sit in nasty cubicals or IT departments
Thats a legit thing. Its actually off the list because Apple still hasnt sent over all of the xserves it was supposed to, and VT being stupid as fuck, sold off their entire computer cluster.
sadly there are a LOT of geeks out there who dont even know what the hitchhikers guide IS.... worse, somehow I think they will only know about it through the movie they are filming.
In NJ everything is covered under a lemon law, breaks 3 times you must get a replacement otherwise the state will (and has) press charges against the company. Im going on time 3 with my iBook...
Had I know the CD was copy-protected though, I wouldnt have even bought it on iTunes. Just renforced why I buy Indie now