Because we all know the PSP will be out earlier than that in Europe, and cost way less than £150, as well. this, of course coming from the fact that Sony has, of course, released launch dates, price of units and games, and battery life expectations. Oh, wait, they haven't.
Lemme know when the PSP launches over there and how much it costs.
Correct. If you defeated your opponent, and had not lost your first life bar, you could perform the Humiliation command on the joystick and buttons to make your opponent dance.
And the announcer would also say "HUMILIATION" when it hppened.
It was always more fun to do this than a No Mercy (fatality) or Ultra Combo (which also killed opponents by hitting them with insanely long combos, 30+ hits), or Ultimate Combo (performs a NoMercy during the combo) to people who thought they were hot shit in the arcades.
I like expose, but I never use it, I'm not sure why. I think one reason is because I don't remember which button is connected to which function, so I usually have to try a couple of them until the windows to what I want them to.
Depending on what type of Mac you are on, they may be mapped somewhat differently. I have only really noticed this on the AlPowerBooks, where the Expose keys have funtions mapped to them (volume, I think). The basic Expose keys are as follows (but can be mapped however you want in System Preferences):
F9: scale down all open windows to see them all, press again or choose window to go back.
F10: show all open windows in current application, use Tab to cycle through apps; press again or choose window to go back.
F11: show desktop, press again to bring windows back.
You can also map Expose features to the corners of the screens, if you so wish.
Since I only have a 14" iBook, I use Expose a lot, because my screen real estate is so small. The only thing I've had to get used to for cycling through windows in an app that's open is the use of command + `/~ whereas in windows you alt tab through those as well as other apps.
I'll give you the menu part, though, being as I'm still not completely used to it in Mac yet, being as I only recently switched (MArch of this year).
As to the up button, though, it all depends on how you go through Finder. When I go, I am usually going through the parent to the file/folder I want, so hitting the back button in Finder takes me back to the parent. I use it all the time for installing maps/models/skins to Unreal Tournament 2004 when I am not in columned mode.
Try OS X and see which enviroment is more user freindly: XP or OS X?
I found OS X to be much more user-friendly than any version of Windows, and generally more stable to boot.
If you think you can't live without a 2-button mouse,then just plug one in; it'll work. And once you get into using Expose, you'll wonder when MS is finally going to copH^H^H^innovate it into Windows.
I agree. The video conferencing abilities of iChat AV are the best I have seen in an IM client. Very little lag with video and sound, great picture quality (and going to be better with Tiger), and decent sound quality.
Now, if only I knew more people with iChat AV. My problems with video conferencing come from AIM users on Windows, and normally because of firewall/router NAT issues.
Top of the line means biggest, best, fastest on the market.
The Radeon 9800 Pro, while an extremely good card, is no longer the top of the line from ATI. 1 GB of PC3200 RAM is not top of the line, when you consider most boards that support that much can support up to 4 GB of RAM. A P4 3.0 GHz is not top of the line from Intel, the 3.6 GHz is. Etc.
"Top of the Line" is not subjective, it means the top of the line products available by the manufacturers; your list does not include them. And to build a PC is to build one from scratch, not transfer old parts to it.
So you've got $439 spent on a non-top of the line PC, you have $61 left for everything else on my list, minus shipping costs, so figure $41-$51 left.
If this were true with Apple WiFI, then my iBook's Airport Extreme card would be dropping/have crap signal with my non-Apple wireless router, no?
You seem to be implying that Apple products only play nice with other Apple products.
Anywhere in my house I am normally at 3-4 bars of signal strength, and my wireless router is a LinkSys WRT54G, which is definitley not made by Apple. When I go to other areas with WiFi networks, as well, most probably not using Airport base stations, my signals are also 3-4 bars unless I am far away.
They should be thinking Apple Corps. Records, which is the actual name of the company, not just Apple.
Just like when I think of Macintosh, iTunes, etc. I think Apple Computers, not just Apple.
I may just say Apple in relation to Apple Computers, but more people associate Apple with the computer company than Apple Corps. Records when just saying Apple in relation to things.
I use the LinkSys WRT54G wih my Airport Extreme card in my iBook (I also have a Windows PC hooked into the router by Ethernet, since it is mere inches from it), and I use the drivers/firmware that came with the router on it.
I don't know if the Airport Express would need something different than the Airport Extreme card.
Given the huge numbers of ISOs of PS2 and Xbox, as well as PSOne and Dreamcast games on the Net (Warez sites, P2P, Usenet, easy to find), can you honselty say that everyone 'backing up' their games are doing it legally (IE actually backing up games they bought)?
The answer is a resounding NO.
I'd wager that the percentage of people using 'back ups' of games to play that never owned (or bought and copied and returned to the store if the store has a return policy like that, most stopped this) hovers at the 90% or higher range.
In fact, most stores stopped the 7 day return policy on open console games simply because the same people would buy a game, copy it, return it within 7 days, lather, rinse, repeat ad infinium. Now they only allow you to trade it in for the exact same title or sell it back for a lower price than people paid for it to begin with if the game is open (they still allow refunds on unopened games, though).
And, honestly, if the kids in your house are damaging disks so easily, then perhaps you should learn to put them somewhere where they can't easily get at them. Perhaps a lock on the place where you keep them would work?
Prove that you can make a top of the line PC for $500.
Find a place, and link to it, please, where you can get parts to build a PC with a P4 3.6 GHz/AMD 64 FX with an 800MHz front side bus, 4 GB RAM (or more if you can find a motherboard that supports more), full tower and power supply, GeForce 6800 Ultra/Radeon X800 (with max RAM available), the largest Serial ATA hard drive on the market at 7200 RPMs, a gigabit Ethernet card, and a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro--all for $500 or less.
We'll not include a monitor or speakers, keyboard and mouse in the pricing. Nor will we include the price of an OS.
But those parts are what will make a truly top of the line non-server PC. You said top of the line, now show me how you can build that for $500 or less.
They also held a focus group that somehow decided the monstrous controller was the best controller evar. Then they released the Controller S due to gamers seeing the Japanese controller, and lo and behold! The S exponentionally outsells the monstrous one at retail, and now Microsoft packs the S in with the system.
So, when we know they're holding focus groups, we should also know that whatever they decide in those focus groups will be the exact opposite of what the general gaming public wants.
So try plugging in a webcam, or digital photo camera, or external USB drive, or... and see if anything just works completely on Windows without installing the drivers for it. Generic drivers may allow something to work to a degree, but they often also have you install your Windows disk and instal them as well.
I plug in my digital photo camera to my iBook, and iPhoto already has the drivers for it, and it just works. I plug in my friend's brand new digital video camera through firewire, and iMovie accepts it just fine, and it just works.
On Windows I have to install a crapload of drivers to get these things to 'just work' on there. And Apple's iPhoto and iMovie actually work easier than the software that I have to install by the product makers on Windows.
My Powerbook crashes about three times a month. And by "crash" I mean "completely and unrecoverably locks up".
I hope it's still under warranty or you bought Applecare. That sounds like a hardware problem.
Maybe some of your RAM is bad, maybe the logic board is bad. If it's RAM, that's easy to fix (unless the PowerBook has soldered in RAM, like the iBook does for 128 MB) by taking some of the RAM out and seeing if it still happens. If it's the logic board, then you'd better hope you have it under warranty or AppleCare, because replacing that costs around $900 with labor otherwise.
My iBook was doing the same thing, but it turns out the soldered in RAM had gone bad. I'm still under warranty, and I have AppleCare, though, so I have 3 full years of parts and labor and phone support.
The problem with OO.o on the mac is you need to instal X11 or Darwin to use it on the Mac. And it's ugly as hell. when they finally get a OS X installer, it should be better to use (I use it exclusively when I am forced to use my Windows machine over Word on that POS), and hopefully more OS X looking.
Besides, AppleWorks opens most Office documents. They may not be exaclty as they are on the PC version, but they open. And AppleWorks allows you to save not only as a.cwk file for Appleworks, but also as text, or several versions of Office formats (at least for documents, haven't tried with spreadsheets or anything else).
This FTP program is absolutely wonderful, most of the time.
My FTP server, though, doesn't like to work with 2.3.2 or 2.3.3, but works fine with 2.3.1, so I just use CyberDuck 2.3.1.
Best part about this FTP client is the iTunes-like (and soon to be system wide with Spotlight in Tiger) search bar in the upper right. Have a mess of files/folders to search through that make your scroll bar go really small? Simply start typing the name of the file/folder you want in the search bar (as long as you are able to normally see it in the window) and it reduces the amount of files/folders until you can easily get to the one you want. We have hundreds of files and folders on our FTP server, and this search bar is a godsend for me.
Oh, and since CyberDuck is open source, it is free as in speech, not just free as in beer.;-P
A Mac grey screen of death is usually (95% of the time) a hardware problem. Try swapping RAM first.
So I reply late to things, sue me.;-P
You are correct. 99.9999999999999% of the time you get the GSOD, it is a hardware problem. My iBook, for example, had the soldered in RAM on the logic (mother) board go bad, and it gave me a few of those screens over the past few months. Then it started giving me what appeared to be kernel panics, where the mouse cursor would move, but nothing else worked.
I found out 2 weeks ago it was the logic board, and had it replaced. Unfortunately, it seems the replacement logic board they put in is also faulty, as if I put any amount of pressure at all at the bottom left of the iBook, my iBook completely locks up. The AppleCare iBook/PowerBook product specialist, after hearing me describe the problem, has told me to go back to the local Apple Store and have them replace the logic board again. It is possible this new one is also defective, or may have been sligtly broken when being installed.
Since they're backed up from the holiday weekend, I am just being careful until Wed., when I can run it up and hopefully have it back very quickly (the Apple Care specialist said that since they just replaced the logic board, it should quickly get pushed up in the to do list).
Too bad IGN isn't one of them.
They're known for giving highly hyped games really high scores, and they are normally ones to get those games early for review. Coincidence? I think not.
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Lemme know when the PSP launches over there and how much it costs.
*Proud to be in the minority*
And the announcer would also say "HUMILIATION" when it hppened.
It was always more fun to do this than a No Mercy (fatality) or Ultra Combo (which also killed opponents by hitting them with insanely long combos, 30+ hits), or Ultimate Combo (performs a NoMercy during the combo) to people who thought they were hot shit in the arcades.
Depending on what type of Mac you are on, they may be mapped somewhat differently. I have only really noticed this on the AlPowerBooks, where the Expose keys have funtions mapped to them (volume, I think). The basic Expose keys are as follows (but can be mapped however you want in System Preferences):
F9: scale down all open windows to see them all, press again or choose window to go back.
F10: show all open windows in current application, use Tab to cycle through apps; press again or choose window to go back.
F11: show desktop, press again to bring windows back.
You can also map Expose features to the corners of the screens, if you so wish.
Since I only have a 14" iBook, I use Expose a lot, because my screen real estate is so small. The only thing I've had to get used to for cycling through windows in an app that's open is the use of command + `/~ whereas in windows you alt tab through those as well as other apps.
I'll give you the menu part, though, being as I'm still not completely used to it in Mac yet, being as I only recently switched (MArch of this year).
As to the up button, though, it all depends on how you go through Finder. When I go, I am usually going through the parent to the file/folder I want, so hitting the back button in Finder takes me back to the parent. I use it all the time for installing maps/models/skins to Unreal Tournament 2004 when I am not in columned mode.
I found OS X to be much more user-friendly than any version of Windows, and generally more stable to boot.
If you think you can't live without a 2-button mouse,then just plug one in; it'll work. And once you get into using Expose, you'll wonder when MS is finally going to copH^H^H^innovate it into Windows.
I kow White Wolf Publishing is an all Mac house, as are many larger and smaller publishers.
Now, if only I knew more people with iChat AV. My problems with video conferencing come from AIM users on Windows, and normally because of firewall/router NAT issues.
Low high-end != top of the line.
Top of the line means biggest, best, fastest on the market.
The Radeon 9800 Pro, while an extremely good card, is no longer the top of the line from ATI. 1 GB of PC3200 RAM is not top of the line, when you consider most boards that support that much can support up to 4 GB of RAM. A P4 3.0 GHz is not top of the line from Intel, the 3.6 GHz is. Etc.
"Top of the Line" is not subjective, it means the top of the line products available by the manufacturers; your list does not include them. And to build a PC is to build one from scratch, not transfer old parts to it.
So you've got $439 spent on a non-top of the line PC, you have $61 left for everything else on my list, minus shipping costs, so figure $41-$51 left.
You seem to be implying that Apple products only play nice with other Apple products.
Anywhere in my house I am normally at 3-4 bars of signal strength, and my wireless router is a LinkSys WRT54G, which is definitley not made by Apple. When I go to other areas with WiFi networks, as well, most probably not using Airport base stations, my signals are also 3-4 bars unless I am far away.
Just like when I think of Macintosh, iTunes, etc. I think Apple Computers, not just Apple.
I may just say Apple in relation to Apple Computers, but more people associate Apple with the computer company than Apple Corps. Records when just saying Apple in relation to things.
I don't know if the Airport Express would need something different than the Airport Extreme card.
If memory serves, that was not an addition. That was in the original version.
The answer is a resounding NO.
I'd wager that the percentage of people using 'back ups' of games to play that never owned (or bought and copied and returned to the store if the store has a return policy like that, most stopped this) hovers at the 90% or higher range.
In fact, most stores stopped the 7 day return policy on open console games simply because the same people would buy a game, copy it, return it within 7 days, lather, rinse, repeat ad infinium. Now they only allow you to trade it in for the exact same title or sell it back for a lower price than people paid for it to begin with if the game is open (they still allow refunds on unopened games, though).
And, honestly, if the kids in your house are damaging disks so easily, then perhaps you should learn to put them somewhere where they can't easily get at them. Perhaps a lock on the place where you keep them would work?
I hear this all the time, and I call bullshit.
Prove that you can make a top of the line PC for $500.
Find a place, and link to it, please, where you can get parts to build a PC with a P4 3.6 GHz/AMD 64 FX with an 800MHz front side bus, 4 GB RAM (or more if you can find a motherboard that supports more), full tower and power supply, GeForce 6800 Ultra/Radeon X800 (with max RAM available), the largest Serial ATA hard drive on the market at 7200 RPMs, a gigabit Ethernet card, and a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro--all for $500 or less.
We'll not include a monitor or speakers, keyboard and mouse in the pricing. Nor will we include the price of an OS.
But those parts are what will make a truly top of the line non-server PC. You said top of the line, now show me how you can build that for $500 or less.
So, when we know they're holding focus groups, we should also know that whatever they decide in those focus groups will be the exact opposite of what the general gaming public wants.
I plug in my digital photo camera to my iBook, and iPhoto already has the drivers for it, and it just works. I plug in my friend's brand new digital video camera through firewire, and iMovie accepts it just fine, and it just works.
On Windows I have to install a crapload of drivers to get these things to 'just work' on there. And Apple's iPhoto and iMovie actually work easier than the software that I have to install by the product makers on Windows.
I hope it's still under warranty or you bought Applecare. That sounds like a hardware problem.
Maybe some of your RAM is bad, maybe the logic board is bad. If it's RAM, that's easy to fix (unless the PowerBook has soldered in RAM, like the iBook does for 128 MB) by taking some of the RAM out and seeing if it still happens. If it's the logic board, then you'd better hope you have it under warranty or AppleCare, because replacing that costs around $900 with labor otherwise.
My iBook was doing the same thing, but it turns out the soldered in RAM had gone bad. I'm still under warranty, and I have AppleCare, though, so I have 3 full years of parts and labor and phone support.
Besides, AppleWorks opens most Office documents. They may not be exaclty as they are on the PC version, but they open. And AppleWorks allows you to save not only as a .cwk file for Appleworks, but also as text, or several versions of Office formats (at least for documents, haven't tried with spreadsheets or anything else).
And Appleworks is built into OS X Panther.
My FTP server, though, doesn't like to work with 2.3.2 or 2.3.3, but works fine with 2.3.1, so I just use CyberDuck 2.3.1.
Best part about this FTP client is the iTunes-like (and soon to be system wide with Spotlight in Tiger) search bar in the upper right. Have a mess of files/folders to search through that make your scroll bar go really small? Simply start typing the name of the file/folder you want in the search bar (as long as you are able to normally see it in the window) and it reduces the amount of files/folders until you can easily get to the one you want. We have hundreds of files and folders on our FTP server, and this search bar is a godsend for me.
Oh, and since CyberDuck is open source, it is free as in speech, not just free as in beer. ;-P
So I reply late to things, sue me. ;-P
You are correct. 99.9999999999999% of the time you get the GSOD, it is a hardware problem. My iBook, for example, had the soldered in RAM on the logic (mother) board go bad, and it gave me a few of those screens over the past few months. Then it started giving me what appeared to be kernel panics, where the mouse cursor would move, but nothing else worked.
I found out 2 weeks ago it was the logic board, and had it replaced. Unfortunately, it seems the replacement logic board they put in is also faulty, as if I put any amount of pressure at all at the bottom left of the iBook, my iBook completely locks up. The AppleCare iBook/PowerBook product specialist, after hearing me describe the problem, has told me to go back to the local Apple Store and have them replace the logic board again. It is possible this new one is also defective, or may have been sligtly broken when being installed.
Since they're backed up from the holiday weekend, I am just being careful until Wed., when I can run it up and hopefully have it back very quickly (the Apple Care specialist said that since they just replaced the logic board, it should quickly get pushed up in the to do list).
I love Ogg vorbis, myself, but I need to hack iTunes with something to make my Mac realize it can play them.
Too bad IGN isn't one of them. They're known for giving highly hyped games really high scores, and they are normally ones to get those games early for review. Coincidence? I think not.
Microsoft's portable digital music player doesn't even come close... wait, it doesn't exist.