That's something I'd like to see, a shift towards Mac gaming. I just recently bought my second Mac, a dual 2.7ghz G5 with a stock Radeon 9650 256mb card. Before getting it I gave up a Dell SC420 with a PCI-E 8x ATI Radeon something 128mb that cost $150. The new rig cost $3500, the old rig cost $1000. It's RIDICULOUS how slow Doom 3 runs on my shiny new Mac. I mean, the first thing I thought as my 23fps headache was subsiding was "Damn. Mac gaming really does suck." I used to get over 60fps on a Windows box which was less than 1/3 the price of my Mac... I read some articles about why on earth this would happen and it ended up being mainly due to a lack of developer time spent on the Mac side of Doom3. I went back and compared Quake 3 and saw that yeah, gaming on the Mac can be as good as (or better than?) on Windows, but it takes time and effort on the part of the developers... So, yeah, I hope this PPC console gaming market helps out the Mac side of gaming.
Dude, I do the same thing, except I put it all on a completely different partition, that way I can ghost the OS partition after a system problem and keep all my personal data. Any system I reload for personal use, at work or at home, gets a slice off the beginning of the drive for each OS I load on it, and then one large data partition. Shortcuts go on the desktop since it's one step shorter than navigating to the "My Documents" folder. But is it really so strange that I actually started using those home-folder locations in OS X? tgz or dmg of your ~ is easy to backup and restore, but on XP there's all that registry BS. Then there are hidden folders that have equally irritating names, like %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Temp. Come on,/tmp is so much easier, but back in Windows even F:\ is so much easier than the default.
You won't be able to NOT know whose files they are since you'll have to enter a password, give a biometric scan and activate online every time you want to see that picture of your new little niece. See, that's the whole point of dropping the "my" prefix. They're not your files, not if MS has anything to say about it. You're merely renting those ones and zero's, and MS is arranging them in a logical order as a service to you.
This is why I suck at business. I don't know how long it would've taken me to think of that. I think a lot of other people reading this thread are totally missing that point too, too busy thinking about how rock solid *nix's are compared to windows. And of course a stable server will save your business money in the long run, but TFA wasn't about saving money.
WTF is this, elementary school?? Why can't my job have a summer recess?? Milk and cookies before nap time would be great too. Oh, and I'd like to meet the cutie from accounting out on the shipping and receiving dock after hours so we can share cooties.
If somebody takes the time to 0wn a server, it's likely because that server is on a fat pipe. If the purpetrator throttles his network usage it could go undetected and have much more serious reprecussions than a dozen infected desktop PC's on DSL. Then again, not all computers on fat pipe's are non-windows boxes... I had to clean up a Serv-U hack on our T1. =/
Lucasfilm has just released a statement informing us that it's not too late to see it a FOURTH or FIFTH time! Get your original Lucasfilm Starwars: Revenge of the Sith easter eggs while you still can, because they won't last long! A whole new round of easter eggs is lined up for each of the seven DVD installments that will be released over the next 20 years! That's right! These film-only easter eggs will not be sold in stores! Get yours TODAY!
I'm almost positive that sarcasm is multi-threaded. Anybody who found the SWE3 easter egg I'm referring to will know exactly what I'm talking about. *wink wink*
Come on man, there are g33ks in the country, and lot's of country houses only have one floor, no attic. Give the guy a break he's already been ostricized enough... So he lives on the same floor as his parents. Does that really make him any less g33ky? Who knows? Maybe they're a whole cult of g33ks running around in Star Wars and LARP attire 24/7, like a non-stop Ren Fest. You just have to accept people's differences.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Cocoa has spell checking pretty much for free in every App you make with it, which is like 90% of the OS X apps out there. Obviously Linux also has a spell checking libraries available, although it's not as standard given the loose structure of linux, so that leaves MS Windows as the only OS without a standard spell-checking library in their API... unless people just never use it, which would be equally ridiculous.
The point is that average people who use a computer the same way they use a coffee maker aren't going to run virus checkers or adware checkers. When I worked at Gateway doing tech support I'd have people calling me up after re-installing their 2 year old virus checking software, as if it's going to help. They think that virus checking is vanilla, it's all the same, you can't go wrong. Spyware? Pretty much the same. "Hold on, let me close down these windows." Hoi Polloi don't have to worry about spyware or viruses on the Mac. Out of the box a person using a Mac doesn't have to worry about the two major classes of irritations to computer users. (I say "irritations" because from a user standpoint it's all about the experience, not the technical details of which software was exploited how and launched through some obscure registry entry with some non-standard security restrictions.)
Sorry, you use a modern OS you'll have upgrades/patches/downtime from time to time.
The difference here is the frequency of those times. I'm on my first Mac, a 12" powerbook, and I've had it for about 30 months. I've never called Apple, I had to re-install once. That created about 15 minutes of downtime, since 15 minutes was the total time to reload and re-import my old settings. 15 minutes of downtime in over 2 years isn't bad... OS patches are about the same as windows, no problems in either case. When a new virus comes out and runs rampant on our corporate network I sometimes end up having to re-ghost about 5 windows boxes after patching them. That doesn't happen on Mac OS X, and the two Mac's I use only see network down-time due to windows boxes having a ICMP flood fight.
WinTel machines use different versions of BIOS. They are not all equal, nor do they all have the same level of compatibility.
Um...ok. What's your point?
The point is that on a Mac I don't get BSOD's when I put a video card in. I just sold my Windows desktop and one of the main reasons was because it infuriated me that Dell refused to update the BIOS to fix the BSOD's with the video card I had purchased because they don't support it on their entry-level server line, but yet they updated the BIOS on their desktop line which has a model that uses an almost identical motherboard.
I think really it boils down to the experience. The average people don't want to know how the computer works or why it works or anything about it, they just want to use it to get info. They don't want to worry about virus scanners or pop-up blockers or spyware. You may not have any security problems, and your friends may not have had security problems, but there are hundreds of thousands of compromised Windows boxes out there filling up our spam boxes. I'm not anti-microsoft, I'm just an advocator of doing it right. In all honesty, I hope MS copies the hell out of Apple and does it right too, then we can all just sit and bitch about how things were copied instead of trying to say "My insecure OS is secure as hell, honestly! And stable too!"
I learned to type on a real typewriter with all black keys in 7th grade, so I'm used to not looking at my fingers. Several years ago I bought a black keyboard and did the black primer thing. My friends hate it, but I dig it. It really did help too, mainly with non-alpha characters. Keyboards and spraypaint are cheap, people shouldn't have to spend lot's of money for a blank keyboard.
#1 Assuming they're going with the classic console business plan, Sony isn't making any money by selling PS3's, they're making money by licensing and selling games. Opening the hardware is a good first step towards modding the PS3 and of course Sony doesn't want that.
#2 It's not going to be an Xbox killer if IBM opens up the architecture for the Chip that's running in the Xbox 360. I see a lot of talk about Sony in this thread, but the Xbox 360 also runs the Cell CPU so all speculation could be equally switched from Sony to Microsoft. IBM isn't opening anything that's console specific here. That would be like assuming you'd be able to tweak out your Honda because it has a certain brand of tires while ignoring the fact that the same brand of tires are on Toyota's too.
People have already been clustering PS2's so clustering is an obvious place that PS3 would be immediately useful. It would be especially useful if it could be booted off a livecd that would allow automatic scaling of the cluster like openmosix, but that ability is not likely without a mod chip, which would make clustering impossible through stock hardware. Unless, of course, somebody legally got ahold of a PS3 dev kit and... well, the possibilities run wild. At any rate, clustering would be a perfect use for PS3's.
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That's something I'd like to see, a shift towards Mac gaming. I just recently bought my second Mac, a dual 2.7ghz G5 with a stock Radeon 9650 256mb card. Before getting it I gave up a Dell SC420 with a PCI-E 8x ATI Radeon something 128mb that cost $150. The new rig cost $3500, the old rig cost $1000. It's RIDICULOUS how slow Doom 3 runs on my shiny new Mac. I mean, the first thing I thought as my 23fps headache was subsiding was "Damn. Mac gaming really does suck." I used to get over 60fps on a Windows box which was less than 1/3 the price of my Mac... I read some articles about why on earth this would happen and it ended up being mainly due to a lack of developer time spent on the Mac side of Doom3. I went back and compared Quake 3 and saw that yeah, gaming on the Mac can be as good as (or better than?) on Windows, but it takes time and effort on the part of the developers... So, yeah, I hope this PPC console gaming market helps out the Mac side of gaming.
Dude, I do the same thing, except I put it all on a completely different partition, that way I can ghost the OS partition after a system problem and keep all my personal data. Any system I reload for personal use, at work or at home, gets a slice off the beginning of the drive for each OS I load on it, and then one large data partition. Shortcuts go on the desktop since it's one step shorter than navigating to the "My Documents" folder. But is it really so strange that I actually started using those home-folder locations in OS X? tgz or dmg of your ~ is easy to backup and restore, but on XP there's all that registry BS. Then there are hidden folders that have equally irritating names, like %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Temp. Come on, /tmp is so much easier, but back in Windows even F:\ is so much easier than the default.
~ is what it's all about. Forget those %somelongvariablename% things. And it even works in the OS X gui. Sweeeeet.
Write letterz n shit, yo.
You won't be able to NOT know whose files they are since you'll have to enter a password, give a biometric scan and activate online every time you want to see that picture of your new little niece. See, that's the whole point of dropping the "my" prefix. They're not your files, not if MS has anything to say about it. You're merely renting those ones and zero's, and MS is arranging them in a logical order as a service to you.
Netcraft can't confirm how much money was spent on a server.
And people some people claim that MS isn't a monopoly...
This is why I suck at business. I don't know how long it would've taken me to think of that. I think a lot of other people reading this thread are totally missing that point too, too busy thinking about how rock solid *nix's are compared to windows. And of course a stable server will save your business money in the long run, but TFA wasn't about saving money.
WTF is this, elementary school?? Why can't my job have a summer recess?? Milk and cookies before nap time would be great too. Oh, and I'd like to meet the cutie from accounting out on the shipping and receiving dock after hours so we can share cooties.
So, what you're saying is that current botnets function like the prayer chain of Satan, the Lord of Spam?
If somebody takes the time to 0wn a server, it's likely because that server is on a fat pipe. If the purpetrator throttles his network usage it could go undetected and have much more serious reprecussions than a dozen infected desktop PC's on DSL. Then again, not all computers on fat pipe's are non-windows boxes... I had to clean up a Serv-U hack on our T1. =/
Why was that modded funny? I'm confuzzled.
Lucasfilm has just released a statement informing us that it's not too late to see it a FOURTH or FIFTH time! Get your original Lucasfilm Starwars: Revenge of the Sith easter eggs while you still can, because they won't last long! A whole new round of easter eggs is lined up for each of the seven DVD installments that will be released over the next 20 years! That's right! These film-only easter eggs will not be sold in stores! Get yours TODAY!
I'm almost positive that sarcasm is multi-threaded. Anybody who found the SWE3 easter egg I'm referring to will know exactly what I'm talking about. *wink wink*
Come on man, there are g33ks in the country, and lot's of country houses only have one floor, no attic. Give the guy a break he's already been ostricized enough... So he lives on the same floor as his parents. Does that really make him any less g33ky? Who knows? Maybe they're a whole cult of g33ks running around in Star Wars and LARP attire 24/7, like a non-stop Ren Fest. You just have to accept people's differences.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Cocoa has spell checking pretty much for free in every App you make with it, which is like 90% of the OS X apps out there. Obviously Linux also has a spell checking libraries available, although it's not as standard given the loose structure of linux, so that leaves MS Windows as the only OS without a standard spell-checking library in their API... unless people just never use it, which would be equally ridiculous.
Hah, and you REALLY missed the joke.
I think you missed the joke.
I think really it boils down to the experience. The average people don't want to know how the computer works or why it works or anything about it, they just want to use it to get info. They don't want to worry about virus scanners or pop-up blockers or spyware. You may not have any security problems, and your friends may not have had security problems, but there are hundreds of thousands of compromised Windows boxes out there filling up our spam boxes. I'm not anti-microsoft, I'm just an advocator of doing it right. In all honesty, I hope MS copies the hell out of Apple and does it right too, then we can all just sit and bitch about how things were copied instead of trying to say "My insecure OS is secure as hell, honestly! And stable too!"
I learned to type on a real typewriter with all black keys in 7th grade, so I'm used to not looking at my fingers. Several years ago I bought a black keyboard and did the black primer thing. My friends hate it, but I dig it. It really did help too, mainly with non-alpha characters. Keyboards and spraypaint are cheap, people shouldn't have to spend lot's of money for a blank keyboard.
You're right. I was mistaken in thinking that the Xbox 360 uses a Cell.
That might clue people into the fact that the Phantom Game Console runs Duke Nukem Forever on AmigaOS.
#1 Assuming they're going with the classic console business plan, Sony isn't making any money by selling PS3's, they're making money by licensing and selling games. Opening the hardware is a good first step towards modding the PS3 and of course Sony doesn't want that.
#2 It's not going to be an Xbox killer if IBM opens up the architecture for the Chip that's running in the Xbox 360. I see a lot of talk about Sony in this thread, but the Xbox 360 also runs the Cell CPU so all speculation could be equally switched from Sony to Microsoft. IBM isn't opening anything that's console specific here. That would be like assuming you'd be able to tweak out your Honda because it has a certain brand of tires while ignoring the fact that the same brand of tires are on Toyota's too.
How can this be modded insightful? Somebody clearly didn't get the joke...
People have already been clustering PS2's so clustering is an obvious place that PS3 would be immediately useful. It would be especially useful if it could be booted off a livecd that would allow automatic scaling of the cluster like openmosix, but that ability is not likely without a mod chip, which would make clustering impossible through stock hardware. Unless, of course, somebody legally got ahold of a PS3 dev kit and... well, the possibilities run wild. At any rate, clustering would be a perfect use for PS3's.