That the Pentium III made the internet faster and the P4 makes digital media better. Both camps pump out a lot of bullshit. I actually expected Apple to go the 64bit@2Ghz == 4Ghz @ 32bit route, so this isn't so bad.
I wonder the same thing about any public access wifi. What's to stop me from walking into some coffee shop, popping open my laptop, do some type of DNS spoofing attack, sit there drink my coffee harvest some PayPal logins, drain those accounts and send them off to some Swiss bank account, finish coffee, walk out. That's a bit extreme but there is no real accountability there, where as if you pull the same kina thing from your home DSL/cable account it is probably coming back on you.
The other thing is that beyond action/sports games being better suited to the PS2 when something gets ported to the 'Cube months after the PS2 I generally don't care anymore. Like GTA3, I hear that's coming to the cube, but I won't buy it because I already have the PS2 version. But if you made me choose between the two I'd roll with the 'cube because it's got a higher proportion of good to bad games. Most PS2 stuff is crap. And then you've got Mario Kart coming, which is hands down the best multiplayer game I've ever played.
Or maybe there are a lot of people in my situation. I bought a Gamecube for the first party titles, and also have a PS2 as well. For a lot of games (Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy things) I feel the PS2 controller is better because it has more buttons. So I buy that kind of stuff for the PS2, and the Gamecube just gets used for first party Nintendo stuff.
None of them are particularly big unless you happen to own a PPC device/have cash and desire to buy a new Mac/have to own the latest in desktop CPU technology.
Well it might depend on the finincial state of the said moderators. Broke to OJ Simpson is different than broke to me, which is different from broke to someone in Etheopia.
I am with you on that. I have been impressed with Dell desktops, we had one at home that took quite a beating and never had any problems(except CD-ROM becoming very pissy about what it would read, but that's happened to me with every optical drive I have owned after 4 years or so) for 5 years. But their laptops suck. They are clunky, heavy, run hot, have display issues, and batteries die unnaturally fast.
Not being able to afford it(apple products) is better than getting it and having to sell it because you are broke as hell. So hey, you are still ahead of me:)
I agree the clients suck, but the network has the best features of any IM service I have used. You have offline messages, a UIN which is nice because then things aren't tied to your ID or e-mail, and other stuff I am probably forgetting because I haven't used it in a few years.
I suggest that they implement what Apple does with OS X for personal non-commercial use. In case anyone is not familier with that, OS X is $130ish I believe, and for $200ish you may buy a "family pack" that legally gives you 5 installs. If MS did this I think there would be less incentive for people to just pass around CD-Rs.
The other thing I would like to see them do is at least for home and educational buyers include at least part of Visual Studio. I get dev tools with Linux distros, I get dev tools with OS X, but I get nothing with Windows. Bundle VS Standard or something, that makes some customers feel they are getting a better value, and MS gains enthusiast developers, and maybe even pro developers in the future, with a preferene and experience developing on MS platforms.
I agree with you. However I think you could arge in some instances that piracy is good in the long term for some companies. Take for instance a 14 year old kid pirating Dreamweaver or Photoshop, definately couldn't afford to buy it, most likely isn't using it commercially. Six years down the line that kid may have a job and need to do image editing or webdev, and what products stand out? The ones he's familier with.
Again the piracy is wrong, but there may be some going for Macromedia or Adobe at somet point.
I have not had during my time using Windows a security exploit personally affect me, nor have I had any real stability issues(save 95 and Me, which BSD'd a lot). What irritates me the most about Windows is the weak CLI, and the way 2000 and XP to a greater degree decide what is good for you, and don't let you override that decision. Windows System File Protection for example, I have not found a way to disable it(even the reg hacks I found will not work). I have had XP refuse to install a different driver for a device because it feels the one that is installed is the best option. And my most recent bitch is that XP seems to decide to find the weakest 802.11b signal and connect to that, despite what I have in my preferred networks list.
Having the OS make decisions for me isn't always bad, but I want the option to override that decision.
That's what I loved about OS X as well. And then I dropped my iBook... So now I am about to 'switch' back to Linux on a new to me IBM ThinkPad 600E with a blazing 366mhz P2. I miss my iBook..
And if MS really wanted to build atop a UNIX base why wouldn't they just use FreeBSD? They could easily take that, modify and close off the source as they have done in the past with BSD code.
Ummm, while I dislike MS's business practices I don't think they are even in the top ten most immoral companies in the world. No matter what they do they are a software company, and not many people die over software.
I dunno, look at the woman most men are dating/living with/married to, most often they aren't super models, so I think most guys can separate the fantasy from their reality.
Although you couldn't do this in Duke3d it did have damage to various things long before anything else, and I thought that was a great addition. One of my favorite things about Half-Life was the granade marks on the walls, and the blood hitting things. I love those small details, and id games either don't have them or they are half assed. I liked the damage zones thing they did with enemies in Soldier of Fortune too, nothing was more fun than blow off a guys leg with the desert eagle and watching his leg roll down a hill. Anyway I will be seriously addicted to the first game that gives you real destructable enviroments.
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Which most people would probably click right through... I dunno, just a thought.
It doesn't bother me that much:) My next investment related to controllers will be in WaveBirds.
That the Pentium III made the internet faster and the P4 makes digital media better. Both camps pump out a lot of bullshit. I actually expected Apple to go the 64bit@2Ghz == 4Ghz @ 32bit route, so this isn't so bad.
I wonder the same thing about any public access wifi. What's to stop me from walking into some coffee shop, popping open my laptop, do some type of DNS spoofing attack, sit there drink my coffee harvest some PayPal logins, drain those accounts and send them off to some Swiss bank account, finish coffee, walk out. That's a bit extreme but there is no real accountability there, where as if you pull the same kina thing from your home DSL/cable account it is probably coming back on you.
The other thing is that beyond action/sports games being better suited to the PS2 when something gets ported to the 'Cube months after the PS2 I generally don't care anymore. Like GTA3, I hear that's coming to the cube, but I won't buy it because I already have the PS2 version. But if you made me choose between the two I'd roll with the 'cube because it's got a higher proportion of good to bad games. Most PS2 stuff is crap. And then you've got Mario Kart coming, which is hands down the best multiplayer game I've ever played.
Or maybe there are a lot of people in my situation. I bought a Gamecube for the first party titles, and also have a PS2 as well. For a lot of games (Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy things) I feel the PS2 controller is better because it has more buttons. So I buy that kind of stuff for the PS2, and the Gamecube just gets used for first party Nintendo stuff.
None of them are particularly big unless you happen to own a PPC device/have cash and desire to buy a new Mac/have to own the latest in desktop CPU technology.
Well it might depend on the finincial state of the said moderators. Broke to OJ Simpson is different than broke to me, which is different from broke to someone in Etheopia.
I am with you on that. I have been impressed with Dell desktops, we had one at home that took quite a beating and never had any problems(except CD-ROM becoming very pissy about what it would read, but that's happened to me with every optical drive I have owned after 4 years or so) for 5 years. But their laptops suck. They are clunky, heavy, run hot, have display issues, and batteries die unnaturally fast.
Not being able to afford it(apple products) is better than getting it and having to sell it because you are broke as hell. So hey, you are still ahead of me:)
I agree the clients suck, but the network has the best features of any IM service I have used. You have offline messages, a UIN which is nice because then things aren't tied to your ID or e-mail, and other stuff I am probably forgetting because I haven't used it in a few years.
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I suggest that they implement what Apple does with OS X for personal non-commercial use. In case anyone is not familier with that, OS X is $130ish I believe, and for $200ish you may buy a "family pack" that legally gives you 5 installs. If MS did this I think there would be less incentive for people to just pass around CD-Rs.
The other thing I would like to see them do is at least for home and educational buyers include at least part of Visual Studio. I get dev tools with Linux distros, I get dev tools with OS X, but I get nothing with Windows. Bundle VS Standard or something, that makes some customers feel they are getting a better value, and MS gains enthusiast developers, and maybe even pro developers in the future, with a preferene and experience developing on MS platforms.
Totally screwed up that last sentence. Should have been some gain for Macromedia or Adobe at some point..
I agree with you. However I think you could arge in some instances that piracy is good in the long term for some companies. Take for instance a 14 year old kid pirating Dreamweaver or Photoshop, definately couldn't afford to buy it, most likely isn't using it commercially. Six years down the line that kid may have a job and need to do image editing or webdev, and what products stand out? The ones he's familier with. Again the piracy is wrong, but there may be some going for Macromedia or Adobe at somet point.
I have not had during my time using Windows a security exploit personally affect me, nor have I had any real stability issues(save 95 and Me, which BSD'd a lot). What irritates me the most about Windows is the weak CLI, and the way 2000 and XP to a greater degree decide what is good for you, and don't let you override that decision. Windows System File Protection for example, I have not found a way to disable it(even the reg hacks I found will not work). I have had XP refuse to install a different driver for a device because it feels the one that is installed is the best option. And my most recent bitch is that XP seems to decide to find the weakest 802.11b signal and connect to that, despite what I have in my preferred networks list.
Having the OS make decisions for me isn't always bad, but I want the option to override that decision.
There was a rumor that IE 6 for OS X was pretty much finished, but upper management had told MacBU to hold it.
That's what I loved about OS X as well. And then I dropped my iBook... So now I am about to 'switch' back to Linux on a new to me IBM ThinkPad 600E with a blazing 366mhz P2. I miss my iBook..
And if MS really wanted to build atop a UNIX base why wouldn't they just use FreeBSD? They could easily take that, modify and close off the source as they have done in the past with BSD code.
Ummm, while I dislike MS's business practices I don't think they are even in the top ten most immoral companies in the world. No matter what they do they are a software company, and not many people die over software.
I stripped a screw in the iBook I once had, and this is exactly how I ended up getting it out. Worked very well, and this was a pretty small screw.
I dunno, look at the woman most men are dating/living with/married to, most often they aren't super models, so I think most guys can separate the fantasy from their reality.
I wonder if you will be able to play Mario Cart Advance 2-4 player on the Gamecube. If so I will definately be buying one of these things for my 'cube
Although you couldn't do this in Duke3d it did have damage to various things long before anything else, and I thought that was a great addition. One of my favorite things about Half-Life was the granade marks on the walls, and the blood hitting things. I love those small details, and id games either don't have them or they are half assed. I liked the damage zones thing they did with enemies in Soldier of Fortune too, nothing was more fun than blow off a guys leg with the desert eagle and watching his leg roll down a hill. Anyway I will be seriously addicted to the first game that gives you real destructable enviroments.
Oh, well I stand corrected. I only saw the first one once, and I don't remember much about it.