Reliance on the mouse is a big issue to me. I really loathe having to pause reach for the mouse every two seconds to move the cursor to the button, click then go back to my keyboard. I also find Apple's mouse designs to be pathetic. Single button mice are down right dumb in my opinion. Right clicking is such a useful feature. I wouldn't mind not having a wheel, but a right mouse button is very valuable. The shortcut keys they have can also cause a strange tangle of fingers too. Having that option key confuses my hands to no end.
Price is also a big issue. I realize Apple is very high quality and as everyone likes to say, "it just works." But I don't have $5k to burn for something I could get for $2k on the PC side. And this dual G5 I use at work generates a TON of heat. I thought my Athlon box at home made a lot of heat, but this thing doubles as a space heater.
After all that bitching I should clarify I do like the Mac. Having access to a nice terminal is really very nice. I'm hoping my fingers will adjust to having the option key and figure out how to arange themselves so they don't trip over themselves. I also didn't find the Mac as stable as my Windows box, but It seems much more stable after three weeks of working with it. I think after working with an OS after a while you gain a subconscious rule book on things you shouldn't do (Like don't try to write to an NTFS formatted external drive... Finder locks and it won't even restart... Force quit is also rendered useless.)
You're a guy in a top secret scientific reasearch facility that's been doing transportation experiments and due to a horrible accident, the facility is being invaded by big, bad, ugly monsters... As the game progresses, you end up being sent to an unhuman world...
Clearly this was copied directly from HL2... Oh wait! That is the story line from the origional DOOM! Who would have thought! Id said they were going to make a game based on the origional storyline and they did just that!
HL2's story was just like DOOM, only you were a scientist instead of a marine.... and instead of Demons from Hell, it was aliens.
Actually in DOOM the grunts (pistol, shotgun and machine gun dudes) and lost souls would fight their own kind (actually lost souls would only get one hit on the other lost soul before returning to you,) though the imps, cacodemons, pinkies, Mancubuses, etc wouldn't hurt their own kind.
The only exception was Barron of hell v.s. Hell Knight.
DOOM 2 had levels where you basicly had to get the monsters to fight eachother... Like the one level where there's a Cyber Demon and a Spider mastermind in the same room, or the level with a Cyber Demon that was behind 20 or so Barrons of Hell that weren't facing you.
I'm pulling this out of my butt, but I'd imagine a Quadro would render DOOM3 quite well as it's OpenGL. However, I don't think it'd perform as well as a gaming card as pro don't use many rendering shortcuts. Image quality is everything to them.
I also think there are also some other things DOOM3 might ask of your video card (vertex shaders and such) that may or may not work well with Quadro's... I don't really know.
Now if you try to run HL2 on a Quadro It'd prolly choke and sputter as DX and Quadro are not pals.
I believe the significance of this is that now there's a large stream available on the web... that you can point people to. Saying to someone that a ogg streams rock is very different than showing them.
Hopefully radio stations and Public Radio shows will adopt Ogg. At the moment, most if not all use Real *shudder*.
What the hell makes the RIAA think people are going to eat this up? It just makes listening to RIAA music more annoying.
Making listening to legally purchased music more difficult and annoying is not going to stop people from illegally downloading RIAA tunes. If anything it'll turn more people to illegal downloading and buying from non-RIAA lables.
I'd bet that many of the 12-20 year old male audience wants a computer for gaming. Yes, there are games for Linux, but really... most of today's PC games run on windows and their engine's work with MS's DX9 and it wouldn't be cost effective for the game company to get their engine running in OpenGL and port it to Linux.
True, Many of these 12-20 year olds are able to get their parents to fork over the cash for a computer and legit software. Others can't. Some parents can't believe that their kids want more money even after they handed their kid $1,000 (or what have you) for the computer hardware.
I used to be one of these kids... then I got a job.
I think what really matters is how secure an OS is when installed with the defaults. Windows is completely open... At least all the Linux installers I've used asks the user to create a root username and pass, then tells the user that they shouldn't usually log in as root and gets them to create another user.
Yeah! Easy! I'll just call my pals over in Zimbabwe and ask them to set up a 700 Gig server and ask 'em to maintain it for a few decades... I'm sure they'd be cool with that.
Certainly sounds easier and cheaper than leaving a reel to reel recording in the attic.;P
If you want to mail sommat you don't want The Government to see, then use another method of mailing it.
I understand why people are a little freaked out by G-Mail, but really, if you need privacy, you shouldn't use ANY mail service that you aren't absolutely sure doesn't read email, and you should encrypt your message as plain text emails can be intercepted at any of the thousands of mail servers your mail will pass through.
Many people very rarely actually listen to CDs. I listen to hours of music every day as I work, but I don't want to continually change CDs every hour. I also like a lot of variation in my music, so one CD at a time is no good. I use Winamp or XMMS to play my whole library. I don't much like iTunes as a player as I'm used to winamp and have global shorcut keys and I know winamp won't hog my memory and spy on me (not saying that iTunes is spyware or bloatware... I haven't checked.)
To do this I've burned CDs purchased from iTunes to CD then ripped to ogg. I, of course lose quality in the encoding process. I would love to have a tool to allow me to play these files in the player of my choosing without having to encode the files again.)
Really, I don't see what the big deal is... if you can burn to CD then rip, you can share the ripped files without any problem... And if you are a *yuck* Kazaa user, you probably won't care about the negligible loss of quality.
My area usues well labled and hard to screw up fill in the circle sheets that you feed into the scanner yourself. It's reliable paper and offers very quick counting.
Usually I'm all for using technology to make life easier, but this is one area where I think reliable is more important than easy.
Real player is absolute crap IMHO. It's annoying to get, it blasts the user with ads and likes to annoy the user by sitting in the task bar, it's slow, bulky and has a horrible and intimidating interface. I liked Real Player's first interface (I'm assuming it was their first as I ran it on my 486.)
Despite this, I don't think Real is going anywhere for a while... channels like 'em too much.
I use Real Alternative with media player classic now. So much better.
I recommend it as an audio player, but I like Media Player Classic for video.
history of Winamp: http://www.time.com/time/digital/reports/ mp3/frank el1.html
Actually I think the fellows who made XMMS wanted a Linux version of Winamp... in fact XMMS skins are the same format as the old winamp skins.
Anyway... I like it well enough... I think it's suffered from bloat since Frankel sold NullSoft to AOL, but it's all good.
Get Winamp 2.X if you want just a good audio player.
Don't get Winamp 3 as it sucks memory like mad and has no real benefits.
Winamp 4 doesn't exist.
Winamp 5 is kinda like what Winamp 3 was supposed to be. It supports the pretty (and useless IMHO) new skins and is also very stable. It also has very nice internet TV video streaming. I run Winamp 5 because I have a Gig of memory and am not bothered by its 10-20 meg footprint.
There are also a whole heck of a lot of plugins for winamp to do various things like controlling it via remote control, ripping audio streams off the web and even have a little character dance on the screen.
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Reliance on the mouse is a big issue to me. I really loathe having to pause reach for the mouse every two seconds to move the cursor to the button, click then go back to my keyboard. I also find Apple's mouse designs to be pathetic. Single button mice are down right dumb in my opinion. Right clicking is such a useful feature. I wouldn't mind not having a wheel, but a right mouse button is very valuable. The shortcut keys they have can also cause a strange tangle of fingers too. Having that option key confuses my hands to no end.
Price is also a big issue. I realize Apple is very high quality and as everyone likes to say, "it just works." But I don't have $5k to burn for something I could get for $2k on the PC side. And this dual G5 I use at work generates a TON of heat. I thought my Athlon box at home made a lot of heat, but this thing doubles as a space heater.
After all that bitching I should clarify I do like the Mac. Having access to a nice terminal is really very nice. I'm hoping my fingers will adjust to having the option key and figure out how to arange themselves so they don't trip over themselves. I also didn't find the Mac as stable as my Windows box, but It seems much more stable after three weeks of working with it. I think after working with an OS after a while you gain a subconscious rule book on things you shouldn't do (Like don't try to write to an NTFS formatted external drive... Finder locks and it won't even restart... Force quit is also rendered useless.)
Phychic powers have been studied for centuries. No one has made any convincing argument or presented any substantial evidence in this area.
I have also called Cleo and she said she sees the project failing.
I don't understand the reasoning behind this. I can think of a couple of reasons maybe, but nothing to justify such a broad swoop.
Anyone care to enlighten me?
You're a guy in a top secret scientific reasearch facility that's been doing transportation experiments and due to a horrible accident, the facility is being invaded by big, bad, ugly monsters... As the game progresses, you end up being sent to an unhuman world... Clearly this was copied directly from HL2... Oh wait! That is the story line from the origional DOOM! Who would have thought! Id said they were going to make a game based on the origional storyline and they did just that! HL2's story was just like DOOM, only you were a scientist instead of a marine.... and instead of Demons from Hell, it was aliens.
Actually in DOOM the grunts (pistol, shotgun and machine gun dudes) and lost souls would fight their own kind (actually lost souls would only get one hit on the other lost soul before returning to you,) though the imps, cacodemons, pinkies, Mancubuses, etc wouldn't hurt their own kind.
:)
The only exception was Barron of hell v.s. Hell Knight.
DOOM 2 had levels where you basicly had to get the monsters to fight eachother... Like the one level where there's a Cyber Demon and a Spider mastermind in the same room, or the level with a Cyber Demon that was behind 20 or so Barrons of Hell that weren't facing you.
Fun times
How are people supposed to create copyrighted works in the first place?
I'm pulling this out of my butt, but I'd imagine a Quadro would render DOOM3 quite well as it's OpenGL. However, I don't think it'd perform as well as a gaming card as pro don't use many rendering shortcuts. Image quality is everything to them.
I also think there are also some other things DOOM3 might ask of your video card (vertex shaders and such) that may or may not work well with Quadro's... I don't really know.
Now if you try to run HL2 on a Quadro It'd prolly choke and sputter as DX and Quadro are not pals.
I believe the significance of this is that now there's a large stream available on the web... that you can point people to. Saying to someone that a ogg streams rock is very different than showing them.
Hopefully radio stations and Public Radio shows will adopt Ogg. At the moment, most if not all use Real *shudder*.
What the hell makes the RIAA think people are going to eat this up? It just makes listening to RIAA music more annoying.
Making listening to legally purchased music more difficult and annoying is not going to stop people from illegally downloading RIAA tunes. If anything it'll turn more people to illegal downloading and buying from non-RIAA lables.
I'd bet that many of the 12-20 year old male audience wants a computer for gaming. Yes, there are games for Linux, but really... most of today's PC games run on windows and their engine's work with MS's DX9 and it wouldn't be cost effective for the game company to get their engine running in OpenGL and port it to Linux.
True, Many of these 12-20 year olds are able to get their parents to fork over the cash for a computer and legit software. Others can't. Some parents can't believe that their kids want more money even after they handed their kid $1,000 (or what have you) for the computer hardware.
I used to be one of these kids... then I got a job.
Hear hear! Well spoken, Bruce!
I think what really matters is how secure an OS is when installed with the defaults. Windows is completely open... At least all the Linux installers I've used asks the user to create a root username and pass, then tells the user that they shouldn't usually log in as root and gets them to create another user.
Yeah! Easy! I'll just call my pals over in Zimbabwe and ask them to set up a 700 Gig server and ask 'em to maintain it for a few decades... I'm sure they'd be cool with that.
;P
Certainly sounds easier and cheaper than leaving a reel to reel recording in the attic.
No, that's not an application... Gelato is definitely NOT realtime.
The applications are in final rendering for films/video, NOT realtime rendering in game engines.
If you want to mail sommat you don't want The Government to see, then use another method of mailing it.
I understand why people are a little freaked out by G-Mail, but really, if you need privacy, you shouldn't use ANY mail service that you aren't absolutely sure doesn't read email, and you should encrypt your message as plain text emails can be intercepted at any of the thousands of mail servers your mail will pass through.
El Pee is Spanish for "The Pee."
Thanks, folks! You've been a great audience... I'll be here 'till thursday!
Reminds me of a guy who used 3M's flourinert along with liquid nitrogen to see how far he could overclock a submerged system. Funny stuff!
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It doesn't look bad to me...
Though I have no idea how playable the games are.
My biggest turn-offs were in the design flaws... that they have apparently fixed.
Am I missing something?
Many people very rarely actually listen to CDs. I listen to hours of music every day as I work, but I don't want to continually change CDs every hour. I also like a lot of variation in my music, so one CD at a time is no good. I use Winamp or XMMS to play my whole library. I don't much like iTunes as a player as I'm used to winamp and have global shorcut keys and I know winamp won't hog my memory and spy on me (not saying that iTunes is spyware or bloatware... I haven't checked.)
To do this I've burned CDs purchased from iTunes to CD then ripped to ogg. I, of course lose quality in the encoding process. I would love to have a tool to allow me to play these files in the player of my choosing without having to encode the files again.)
Really, I don't see what the big deal is... if you can burn to CD then rip, you can share the ripped files without any problem... And if you are a *yuck* Kazaa user, you probably won't care about the negligible loss of quality.
Excellent point!
I bet it'd be cheaper cost per unit to.
I still don't see why we can't stick to paper...
My area usues well labled and hard to screw up fill in the circle sheets that you feed into the scanner yourself. It's reliable paper and offers very quick counting.
Usually I'm all for using technology to make life easier, but this is one area where I think reliable is more important than easy.
Yup.
Real player is absolute crap IMHO. It's annoying to get, it blasts the user with ads and likes to annoy the user by sitting in the task bar, it's slow, bulky and has a horrible and intimidating interface. I liked Real Player's first interface (I'm assuming it was their first as I ran it on my 486.)
Despite this, I don't think Real is going anywhere for a while... channels like 'em too much.
I use Real Alternative with media player classic now. So much better.
Winamp is pretty much XMMS... It does video to.
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I recommend it as an audio player, but I like Media Player Classic for video.
history of Winamp:
http://www.time.com/time/digital/reports
Actually I think the fellows who made XMMS wanted a Linux version of Winamp... in fact XMMS skins are the same format as the old winamp skins.
Anyway... I like it well enough... I think it's suffered from bloat since Frankel sold NullSoft to AOL, but it's all good.
Get Winamp 2.X if you want just a good audio player.
Don't get Winamp 3 as it sucks memory like mad and has no real benefits.
Winamp 4 doesn't exist.
Winamp 5 is kinda like what Winamp 3 was supposed to be. It supports the pretty (and useless IMHO) new skins and is also very stable. It also has very nice internet TV video streaming. I run Winamp 5 because I have a Gig of memory and am not bothered by its 10-20 meg footprint.
There are also a whole heck of a lot of plugins for winamp to do various things like controlling it via remote control, ripping audio streams off the web and even have a little character dance on the screen.
I wouldn't want to read a book on a PDA... it'd be a pain in the ass to read more than a few snippets of text from such a small screen.
IIRC E-Ink only uses energy when changing the page.
Hear hear! Well spoken, Bruce.