I wonder how much the average Zamboni driver would get paid to drive down to the south pole and back to flatten out the ice road...
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Exactly. It runs under X11. I'm way too lazy to attempt to get X11 to run over/under/next to/whatever or however it runs with/without OS X. Graphic Convertor runs just fine under OS X. But... if GIMP ran directly under OS X (download/run and nothing else) I'd be inclined to give it a shot. I'm not that hardcore into the "I gotta use open source" or whatever makes GIMP so cool that I'm gonna mess around with installing 8 other doo dads to get it working.
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I'm not a graphic design type but I do need a program to use when I am creating web sites... there's not a chance I'm gonna spend $600 or so on PhotoShop when all I have to do is resize and image and maybe a crop or two...
Right now I use Graphic Convertor because it's cheap ($20) and it's easy to use... but I'd be inclined to install GIMP and use it too if it stopped by OS X...
A lot of power users probably use Final Cut Pro/DVD Studio Pro too but I bet there is a much much larger market that uses iMovie and iDVD because it's easy and it does what "the common man" needs done... this is the same place where GIMP will prevail.
You can also use the QCast Tuner to play DivX on your PS2 although I think the methodology is different. It looks like the QCast simply makes your PS2 a TV out using the networking adapter whereas the PS2Reality lets you play Divx off a burned CD. At least... that's what it sounds like... I can't get to the article.
It's also stupid that XBox live doesn't support Visa or MasterCard DEBIT cards.
My debit card worked just fine. It's a Visa debit card.
Lastly, I didn't see a function to boot players from a game.
While I feel the same as you do on this point, I just want to note for all the people that have not used XBox Live that this is the fault of the actual game and not of the XBox. Some games do support kicking people out and others don't.
I happen to have a 15" iMac. 800 mhz G4, 768 MB of RAM, running Mac OS X 10.2.1. Anyhow... here's the scoop on me.
I had an Athlon 1.x Ghz up until last December with all the bells and whistles a gamer could reasonably want. XP Home started freaking out on me and after a while and many calls to Microsoft I basically determined it was beyond repair for me. I've been using computers and building my own since probably 94-95 or so so I should've been able to fix anything reasonable. I'm pretty sure ultimately it was a hardware problem but I was fed up with Windows anyhow so I just sold the whole thing except the motherboard/processor (everything else worked fine).
No more computer for me I said.
Then I saw the iMac. It had style. Maybe person X doesn't like it because it looks like a lamp or a funny hat or whatever, but it's certainly unique and has some style. And I knew it had Unix underneath that pretty screen. I had tried various releases of Linux but it seemed like after the many days of tweaking would ultimately end in me booting into Windows anyway. No point in that. But the iMac came with Unix (BSD, Darwin, whatever you wanna call it, that's not the point) installed on it.
So I bought it. And it arrived. I took it outta the box and was even more impressed with the real thing. Within minutes I was literally up and online and everything worked. I really was amazed.
The above is mainly to establish that I used to use Windows, dabbled in Linux, and am recently a novice Mac freak. So now more onto the question at hand.
Of course all the iApps run well. Not a problem there. I have never ever ever ever ever had a coaster CD or DVD from this machine. This happened quite frequently with my PC. While burning a CD under Mac OS X I've been able to browse the internet, watch quicktime, etc no problem even. I *think* once I even played an OpenGL game to see if I could make it make a coaster. No dice though. This makes me happy. A coaster for a CD isn't that big a deal but coaster DVD's at $4-$5 a pop can stink.
Why do I have 768 MB of RAM in it? To run Windows 2000 with Virtual PC. Windows 2000 does run slow. It works but it runs slow. For my correspondence classes I'm taking right now I need to program in VC++ so I went and got Virtual PC. VC++ is the only thing I use Virtual PC for.
I recently purchased Macromedia Flash MX. Works like a charm. I don't notice it being slow in the least.
Exporting DVD's from iDVD can take a while. But I don't really have a comparison on the PC so that's probably not too helpful.
I've rendered some Bryce here and there and it doesn't take any longer than on my Athlon machine that I used to have. I won't say it's faster but I know it's not slower.
Games that my machine meets or exceeds the specs for work just like they did on the PC. The Mac does have games... you can get them from gogamer.com and adobe.com...:)
Encoding to MP3 doesn't take any longer. Converting movie files takes the same amount of time.
I dunno. Overall I'm impressed with OS X. It took me a while to realize that it wasn't the computer I was happy with but it was the OS that I was happy with. If you live close to an Apple store I'd reccommend checking them out for yourself or finding a friend that'll admit to having one.
As far as speed goes I think they're decently on par with x86 machines. They might be a tad slower. But unless every single day you're going to render video, does it really matter? All I usually do is browse the internet, download stuff, play the occasional game, IM, etc. If you want to play every new game that comes out I'd say get a PC because you can upgrade that easier long term I think. Or if you daily intend to do super intensive tasks. But for most users any small slowdown that a OS X does is worth the benefit of which in my opinion, is a better OS.
It's like I told my friend the other day... I might have a *insert crappy but dependable car name* and you might have a *insert fast but non-dependable car name*... but odds are, neither of us are gonna very much over highway speeds so who cares if you can go twice as fast as I am if you never will.
I am the web person for the band Beautiful Feet. I discussed with the band about releasing their CD's in an online format for free. They will be in MP3 format but you won't be able to download the songs as the website is being redone in Flash. Of course you can always do a line-out recording or something similar. You can probably even hack into flash and do some wham fangled crazy thing to get the MP3 files. But for the other 95% of the people that go to the website that are the casual computer user, they will be able to experience the music in full before making a purchasing decision.
Anyhow... does anybody know a free/$50 way to secure music? I'm not worried about securing it from the die hard "hackers" that want to get at the music. Would the solution above be enough for the common surfer?
Obviously once one person gets ahold of it they can distribute it in format X anywhere they want. But if somebody does that, in my opinion they probably wouldn't have bought the $10 CD anyhow but are attempting to add more songs to their collection of music that they will never listen to anyhow.
I personally buy CD's from artists (even if I don't like their music) if they have a whole CD on their website. For instance, The The released one of their CD's online a while back which after downloading a few tracks I just bought to show support for the boldness.
Anyhow... sorry about my lack of flow. That's why I'm a programmer and have statements to control my "thought flow".:)
Go to the bookstore. Buy the book "The Two Towers". Turn all the lights in your computer room to off. Turn the brightness on your monitor way up and make sure energy saving features and screen savers are turned off. Turn the book so the text is facing the monitor. RTFB. When you come to a part you want to visualize, stop reading, close your eyes, and pretend.
A few months after I got my palm pilot w/ Graffitti on it I actually had to write some notes on *gasp!* paper... I went back to my desk to review them and was shocked to find I had written them all Graffitti style and not in my actual hand writing... I no longer use my palm pilot (mainly cause the batteries died and I'm lazy)...
I went to the university once, started working as a software developer and I quit school. Now I'm going back to school but doing it all through correspondence work. It's all on my own time, on my own schedule. I am enrolled at The American College of Computer and Information Sciences. Also the University of Phoenix does online degrees too as far as I know. ACCIS is fairly easy but you have to keep on doing it. It's easy to stop when you don't have due dates for anything. Right now I'm in 3 classes and you only have to turn in 1 assignment from any of your classes every 2 months minimum. Obviously you'll want to turn in more than that.... else computers will be obsolete when you graduate.:)
Anyhow... might want to browse the websites. Can't hurt to poke around. Feel free to e-mail me personally if you want to know more about it (or anybody can e-mail me if they want).
This Dan guy didn't call me to ask me what I was running. So I'm officially saying that OS X is run on 3.10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of computers as my computer runs OS X. Next time, have Dan call me so he can get his stats right.
But really... duh. You can run Linux on pretty much anything now-a-days. Dreamcast, PS2, XBox, Intel, PPC, and probably a modded stuffed animal. You can run OS X on a PPC computer. *insert good analogy here*
There are two groups that learn about your OS preference. By purchasing a non-Windows version of a game the publisher realizes that somebody has bought this and is using it. To me, this is something that the publisher could gather when you create and connect to the servers possibly. So the publisher might have this information regardless of the version that you buy.
The other group that recieves this information is the store you purchase it from. Lets just say you're buying from EB. Initially they order 300 copies of Unreal for Windows and 3 of Unreal for Linux. All the copies for both platforms may very well sell. But they are only going to reorder for the Windows platform most likely. Most of their employees probably won't know that they sell the Linux version either. Then you're stuck buying the Windows version because you yourself might not even know that they sell the Linux version. If you know a Linux version is available you should have them order it for you. The downside to that is that you have to wait but it is one more sale for the Linux version. If they won't order you the Linux version order it online. Don't just settle for the Windows version. Unless it's an emergency LAN party situation. Then you can of course.:)
At least you have a shelvable version. I went to EB and asked if they had any Mac software and almost got laughed out of the store. Hopefully that will all change in a few years.
Measure the distance between the buildings. Let's just work with two buildings here in this example.
You have house A and house B. They are 100 feet apart from each other. Now we know that the average width of a midget is about 2 feet give or take. I don't know about UK labor laws but in the US 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week is your typical.
Soooo... we're gonna need 50 midgets to go between the buildings providing they stand shoulder to shoulder. If you want to cut down on costs have them extend their arms and hire the ones with the widest armspan. But we'll stick with 50 midgets for one shift. Well we need them there 24 hours a day so we'll need three shifts so 150 midgets. Then you have weekends and vacation, sick time, and other stuff so maybe hire two more shifts worth. Then you can just run straight cable through the sleeves of their shirts.
If class A buildings aren't allowed to have midgets you can dress them up as lawn gnomes and get them taxidermied. It's cheaper that way too. You only need one shift and maybe need to replace them once a year or so.
The best part is, people will come to see Newtons house and to see the midgets too!
So we have this thing with wings. And lets just say for instance we write a program with a bunch of "for" loops even. This is probably quite high-level but let's say it loops through all angles of rotation of the wing and all upward/downward movement of the wing. These numbers can be put into a formula most likely. Which should end up eventually being the desired number that tells the robot that it did its job. Why did they even build a robot? All they really had to do was try every cobination of movements which then provided feedback which was most likely calculable. Am I missing something? It's not even so neat that it cheated... so the loop didn't tell the other wing to do anything... whoopie.
Quick! Somebody file a patent through them that gives you credit for thinking up cancelling slashdot interviews! Then you can tell them that they have to pay you $10,000 to cancel the interview... that'll learn 'em. They'll probably approve the patent anyhow knowing what other patents have been filed in the past...
No more circular swinging, no more phone dialing music, no more wheel... durn...
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I wonder how much the average Zamboni driver would get paid to drive down to the south pole and back to flatten out the ice road...
Exactly. It runs under X11. I'm way too lazy to attempt to get X11 to run over/under/next to/whatever or however it runs with/without OS X. Graphic Convertor runs just fine under OS X. But... if GIMP ran directly under OS X (download/run and nothing else) I'd be inclined to give it a shot. I'm not that hardcore into the "I gotta use open source" or whatever makes GIMP so cool that I'm gonna mess around with installing 8 other doo dads to get it working.
I'm not a graphic design type but I do need a program to use when I am creating web sites... there's not a chance I'm gonna spend $600 or so on PhotoShop when all I have to do is resize and image and maybe a crop or two...
Right now I use Graphic Convertor because it's cheap ($20) and it's easy to use... but I'd be inclined to install GIMP and use it too if it stopped by OS X...
A lot of power users probably use Final Cut Pro/DVD Studio Pro too but I bet there is a much much larger market that uses iMovie and iDVD because it's easy and it does what "the common man" needs done... this is the same place where GIMP will prevail.
You can also use the QCast Tuner to play DivX on your PS2 although I think the methodology is different. It looks like the QCast simply makes your PS2 a TV out using the networking adapter whereas the PS2Reality lets you play Divx off a burned CD. At least... that's what it sounds like... I can't get to the article.
It's also stupid that XBox live doesn't support Visa or MasterCard DEBIT cards.
My debit card worked just fine. It's a Visa debit card.
Lastly, I didn't see a function to boot players from a game.
While I feel the same as you do on this point, I just want to note for all the people that have not used XBox Live that this is the fault of the actual game and not of the XBox. Some games do support kicking people out and others don't.
After the first year it is $49.99 a year.
"No way. That's great. We landed on the moon!"
I happen to have a 15" iMac. 800 mhz G4, 768 MB of RAM, running Mac OS X 10.2.1. Anyhow... here's the scoop on me.
:)
I had an Athlon 1.x Ghz up until last December with all the bells and whistles a gamer could reasonably want. XP Home started freaking out on me and after a while and many calls to Microsoft I basically determined it was beyond repair for me. I've been using computers and building my own since probably 94-95 or so so I should've been able to fix anything reasonable. I'm pretty sure ultimately it was a hardware problem but I was fed up with Windows anyhow so I just sold the whole thing except the motherboard/processor (everything else worked fine).
No more computer for me I said.
Then I saw the iMac. It had style. Maybe person X doesn't like it because it looks like a lamp or a funny hat or whatever, but it's certainly unique and has some style. And I knew it had Unix underneath that pretty screen. I had tried various releases of Linux but it seemed like after the many days of tweaking would ultimately end in me booting into Windows anyway. No point in that. But the iMac came with Unix (BSD, Darwin, whatever you wanna call it, that's not the point) installed on it.
So I bought it. And it arrived. I took it outta the box and was even more impressed with the real thing. Within minutes I was literally up and online and everything worked. I really was amazed.
The above is mainly to establish that I used to use Windows, dabbled in Linux, and am recently a novice Mac freak. So now more onto the question at hand.
Of course all the iApps run well. Not a problem there. I have never ever ever ever ever had a coaster CD or DVD from this machine. This happened quite frequently with my PC. While burning a CD under Mac OS X I've been able to browse the internet, watch quicktime, etc no problem even. I *think* once I even played an OpenGL game to see if I could make it make a coaster. No dice though. This makes me happy. A coaster for a CD isn't that big a deal but coaster DVD's at $4-$5 a pop can stink.
Why do I have 768 MB of RAM in it? To run Windows 2000 with Virtual PC. Windows 2000 does run slow. It works but it runs slow. For my correspondence classes I'm taking right now I need to program in VC++ so I went and got Virtual PC. VC++ is the only thing I use Virtual PC for.
I recently purchased Macromedia Flash MX. Works like a charm. I don't notice it being slow in the least.
Exporting DVD's from iDVD can take a while. But I don't really have a comparison on the PC so that's probably not too helpful.
I've rendered some Bryce here and there and it doesn't take any longer than on my Athlon machine that I used to have. I won't say it's faster but I know it's not slower.
Games that my machine meets or exceeds the specs for work just like they did on the PC. The Mac does have games... you can get them from gogamer.com and adobe.com...
Encoding to MP3 doesn't take any longer. Converting movie files takes the same amount of time.
I dunno. Overall I'm impressed with OS X. It took me a while to realize that it wasn't the computer I was happy with but it was the OS that I was happy with. If you live close to an Apple store I'd reccommend checking them out for yourself or finding a friend that'll admit to having one.
As far as speed goes I think they're decently on par with x86 machines. They might be a tad slower. But unless every single day you're going to render video, does it really matter? All I usually do is browse the internet, download stuff, play the occasional game, IM, etc. If you want to play every new game that comes out I'd say get a PC because you can upgrade that easier long term I think. Or if you daily intend to do super intensive tasks. But for most users any small slowdown that a OS X does is worth the benefit of which in my opinion, is a better OS.
It's like I told my friend the other day... I might have a *insert crappy but dependable car name* and you might have a *insert fast but non-dependable car name*... but odds are, neither of us are gonna very much over highway speeds so who cares if you can go twice as fast as I am if you never will.
Exactly. Which is why somebody needs to call up TLC and pitch them the idea for the show...
"Trading Cases"
I really didn't cheat on my math test like I said in my blogger!!! Somebody hacked it... yeah... that's it...
I am the web person for the band Beautiful Feet. I discussed with the band about releasing their CD's in an online format for free. They will be in MP3 format but you won't be able to download the songs as the website is being redone in Flash. Of course you can always do a line-out recording or something similar. You can probably even hack into flash and do some wham fangled crazy thing to get the MP3 files. But for the other 95% of the people that go to the website that are the casual computer user, they will be able to experience the music in full before making a purchasing decision.
:)
Anyhow... does anybody know a free/$50 way to secure music? I'm not worried about securing it from the die hard "hackers" that want to get at the music. Would the solution above be enough for the common surfer?
Obviously once one person gets ahold of it they can distribute it in format X anywhere they want. But if somebody does that, in my opinion they probably wouldn't have bought the $10 CD anyhow but are attempting to add more songs to their collection of music that they will never listen to anyhow.
I personally buy CD's from artists (even if I don't like their music) if they have a whole CD on their website. For instance, The The released one of their CD's online a while back which after downloading a few tracks I just bought to show support for the boldness.
Anyhow... sorry about my lack of flow. That's why I'm a programmer and have statements to control my "thought flow".
Can the Apple service be called.... *opens the envelope*...
"i in the Sky"
ah-hahahaha! *this is the sound of one man laughing*
BTW I only own a flat panel iMac so don't be too mad at me...
Go to the bookstore. Buy the book "The Two Towers". Turn all the lights in your computer room to off. Turn the brightness on your monitor way up and make sure energy saving features and screen savers are turned off. Turn the book so the text is facing the monitor. RTFB. When you come to a part you want to visualize, stop reading, close your eyes, and pretend.
A few months after I got my palm pilot w/ Graffitti on it I actually had to write some notes on *gasp!* paper... I went back to my desk to review them and was shocked to find I had written them all Graffitti style and not in my actual hand writing... I no longer use my palm pilot (mainly cause the batteries died and I'm lazy)...
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/hs/
Dunno why that isn't posted in the article...
I went to the university once, started working as a software developer and I quit school. Now I'm going back to school but doing it all through correspondence work. It's all on my own time, on my own schedule. I am enrolled at The American College of Computer and Information Sciences. Also the University of Phoenix does online degrees too as far as I know. ACCIS is fairly easy but you have to keep on doing it. It's easy to stop when you don't have due dates for anything. Right now I'm in 3 classes and you only have to turn in 1 assignment from any of your classes every 2 months minimum. Obviously you'll want to turn in more than that.... else computers will be obsolete when you graduate. :)
Anyhow... might want to browse the websites. Can't hurt to poke around. Feel free to e-mail me personally if you want to know more about it (or anybody can e-mail me if they want).
That'll be pretty odd to soder a mod-chip to your motherboard. Sooo many mother boards, so many mod-chips to choose from.
This Dan guy didn't call me to ask me what I was running. So I'm officially saying that OS X is run on 3.10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of computers as my computer runs OS X. Next time, have Dan call me so he can get his stats right.
But really... duh. You can run Linux on pretty much anything now-a-days. Dreamcast, PS2, XBox, Intel, PPC, and probably a modded stuffed animal. You can run OS X on a PPC computer. *insert good analogy here*
There are two groups that learn about your OS preference. By purchasing a non-Windows version of a game the publisher realizes that somebody has bought this and is using it. To me, this is something that the publisher could gather when you create and connect to the servers possibly. So the publisher might have this information regardless of the version that you buy.
:)
The other group that recieves this information is the store you purchase it from. Lets just say you're buying from EB. Initially they order 300 copies of Unreal for Windows and 3 of Unreal for Linux. All the copies for both platforms may very well sell. But they are only going to reorder for the Windows platform most likely. Most of their employees probably won't know that they sell the Linux version either. Then you're stuck buying the Windows version because you yourself might not even know that they sell the Linux version. If you know a Linux version is available you should have them order it for you. The downside to that is that you have to wait but it is one more sale for the Linux version. If they won't order you the Linux version order it online. Don't just settle for the Windows version. Unless it's an emergency LAN party situation. Then you can of course.
At least you have a shelvable version. I went to EB and asked if they had any Mac software and almost got laughed out of the store. Hopefully that will all change in a few years.
I thought it was Apple vs. Microsoft. Crap. Out of the loop again.
Too bad I have to wait for May of next year!
Not if you have a 12 year old in your neighborhood. I'm sure he could make you an SVCD in late April.
Measure the distance between the buildings. Let's just work with two buildings here in this example.
You have house A and house B. They are 100 feet apart from each other. Now we know that the average width of a midget is about 2 feet give or take. I don't know about UK labor laws but in the US 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week is your typical.
Soooo... we're gonna need 50 midgets to go between the buildings providing they stand shoulder to shoulder. If you want to cut down on costs have them extend their arms and hire the ones with the widest armspan. But we'll stick with 50 midgets for one shift.
Well we need them there 24 hours a day so we'll need three shifts so 150 midgets. Then you have weekends and vacation, sick time, and other stuff so maybe hire two more shifts worth. Then you can just run straight cable through the sleeves of their shirts.
If class A buildings aren't allowed to have midgets you can dress them up as lawn gnomes and get them taxidermied. It's cheaper that way too. You only need one shift and maybe need to replace them once a year or so.
The best part is, people will come to see Newtons house and to see the midgets too!
That should help with the U.S. government not being able to keep ahold of their laptops.
http://news.com.com/2100-1020-950155.html
So we have this thing with wings. And lets just say for instance we write a program with a bunch of "for" loops even. This is probably quite high-level but let's say it loops through all angles of rotation of the wing and all upward/downward movement of the wing. These numbers can be put into a formula most likely. Which should end up eventually being the desired number that tells the robot that it did its job. Why did they even build a robot? All they really had to do was try every cobination of movements which then provided feedback which was most likely calculable. Am I missing something? It's not even so neat that it cheated... so the loop didn't tell the other wing to do anything... whoopie.
Quick! Somebody file a patent through them that gives you credit for thinking up cancelling slashdot interviews! Then you can tell them that they have to pay you $10,000 to cancel the interview... that'll learn 'em. They'll probably approve the patent anyhow knowing what other patents have been filed in the past...
No more circular swinging, no more phone dialing music, no more wheel... durn...