Its CPU is basically a G5 from what I've read. And from personal experience, a 970 FX can easilly destroys the P3/Celeorn-hybrid found in the XBox and the Custom G3 found in the GC. Your "hardly comment" only goes to show how ignorant you are about these things. The Wii's GPU is at least 4 or 5 generations ahead of its predecessor, so that's going to make a big difference in performance. It's also pretty much guaranteed that the Wii will have a PPU. If this is the case, it will make a substantial difference in performance for 3D games, and free up the CPU to do other tasks. A dedicated PPU would be much faster than the software route the X360 and PS3 have taken.
I found most of what you sated to be more inflammatory than instightful. But it's good that you pointed out the backwards compatibily. I know you were trying to use that to state your case, but it's one of the Wii's strengths and it's just another reason for me to buy one.
The Wiimote isn't an afterthought like Sony's hack-job as an example, so all Wii games that can benefit from it, will support it. This is why the Wii is going to be great and you honestly can't deny you would love this sort of thing on your favorite console. You're only "trying" to spread "misinformation" by stating things like a "handfull of games." Like that's going to change anything, since Nintendo has a huge line up of Wii games, which are wiimote-friendly, which will be ready for launch. A bundled "main" controller won't have problems getting support from developers; Get real!
Anway, most of your points can easilly be applied to the other consoles, since they're basically upgrades. They haven't changed gaming, they've only moved consoles up to the level of mid-ranged PCs when it comes to visual eye-candy. Nintendo's Wii is the only console that has brought something new to the plate and it has all the potentional to evovle gaming beyond the current state of same, which MS and Sony are moving forward with. An upgrade is better graphics and more power, not a whole new way to game, which only the Wii can offer.
"Driers," you insignificant little tard. OMG!!!Llike.. Like, OMG!!! At this moment my arse is more interesting than your juvenal rhetoric. If you "owned" a Mac, ( Which I higly doubt. ) it's good to see that a moron of your calibre has stopped using one. I'm pretty sure if you did actually own one, you would have needed assistance just to turn one on.
You wipe floors with FreeType? Intersting, do you also wipe your arse with this sort of thing? And how often do you look at shit? STOP IT!!!
Thanks for the laugh, but maybe I shouldn't laugh at retards. Hey, don't forget your saftey helmet.
It's definately a visually nice ugprade from WM 10, and it does look better than iTunes in some ways on my PCs, but it definately does not look better than iTunes on my Macs, which use their GPU to render true 32-bit windows with crystal-clear anti-aliased fonts. The Mac version of iTunes also has a very tiny footprint in memory for what it does, and uses virtually no CPU time to playback my Apple Lossless music; Less than 4% on average. True OS level integration with OS X makes it a completely different app than what it is on my PC. Just to clarify, it runs good on my PCs, but it runs great on my Macs. It runs better on my 3.5 year old PB, than it does on my newer and much faster Athlons.
I'm into the black glossy look they used with WM 11, I actually just worked on a site design that used a similar treatment, but the buttoms are obnoxious in size and the fonts look bad. The non-aliased window and Window's close/minimise/maximise buttons also bring down its appearance in my book. And MS can thank Apple for glass/glossy look, not for coming up with it, but definately paving the road for its widespread implementation. Apple actually toned down their use of it with OS X 10.3. They relized that it was distracting for us pro-art-peeps, so minimalized its use.;)
Anway, I'll need ot download and try it out, but I can already tell that it doesn't look remotely as intuitive as iTunes, which is way more important than a purdey interface.
The Wii has more than momentum, it has changing power. It's the only system that can offer something new and at an affordable price. I doubt Sony will be on top this time around.
Stronger brand can only carry a company so far and Sony has ticked off many peeps, including me with their missleading products. Sony's biggest problem is how they've used their brand. Sony has been riding its name for years, while neglecting their customers and the quality of their products.
I own SS2 still, but sold my SS1 along with my old P90@100 back in 95. Kind of wish I hadn't done that now. But things worked out I guess.:p
I have Dosbox on my Macs. I own PCs also of course.:) I would like to pick up a copy of SS1 on eBay, or wherever and give it a try.
I didn't know that SS1 was being updated. I hope it pans out.
I'll have to pull out my copy of DX and give it another try. I felt the same way about NPCs. But I have to say that being led on with the possibility of others to assist, but then hear them killed added to the game for me, since it really let me know that I was truly alone on this space station.:) I just recall Shodan always contacting me at the worst times possible and scaring the crap out of me.
Same here about UW, I put weeks into it. Unfortanely I encountered a bug at the very end. I know this, because after getting completely stuck and not being able to open the last door, re-tracking all of steps many-many times, I finally gave-up and bought the strategy guide. I learned that I had everything I needed, had flipped the levers in the correct order, but could never get the last door opened no matter how many times I tried.
I played UW2 about half way, the game was great to that point, but it also glitched on me.:( I got to a point that I couldn't go any further, decided to buy the stradegy guide, since I had encountered a bug with UW, and sure enough, it was another bug. *grumbles* I would like to finish UW and UW2 some day, I just need to find the time and pickup the games again. I regret selling all of my old DOS games, they're still some of my favorites.
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I've played both and love both, but quirks like infinite monster respawn in the second one made it feel like more of a FPS for me. Also, even though the choice of different classes in the beginning sounded great, it ended up taking away from the game's story. The first SS1 was honed to the role of only a hacker, so its story felt more complete for me, where as SS2 seemed to have gaps here an there. Even though they improved the graphics and gave the game the ability to use the mouse for aiming in SS2, they ended up watering down the rest of it. Even some controls had been removed. I recall that I could no longer crouch around corners, to shoot either high or low. I'm sad, because this was one of my most anticipated games and it ended up falling short.:( I remember trying it at E3 and being so excited about the prospect of it being developed.
As a whole though, SS1 was by far the most intriguing, well balanced game that I've ever played. The second one didn't scare me like others have noted, where as the first one freaked me out more than a few times. I felt like I had just saved the universe after completing it.:)
Thief was also made by the same guy as SSx and Deus X. I've never played it, because it constantly crashed on my old Win2K PC. I'm sure it would work on any of my XP PCs though. I started on Deus X, but sadly didn't finish it. It had inherited lots of the things that bothered me about SS2. I'm still planning on playing it though. I have no doubt that's 10 fold better than most of the dumbed-down crap now days.
Looking Glass Technology was my favorited game company. I was sorely disappointed to see them go. Ultima Underworld was also another masterpiece crafted by them. It was the very first continous dungeon game and it offered a level of weopon control that still has not been matched by any other game that I know of, not even modern games like the stiff-controled-Oblivion.
I didn't know that music player implied a poorly constructed - failure proned - virus infestation. Now that's just the hardware portion, the included software is actually worse.
As usual, when someone is as ignorant as this troll, they'll use Anonymous Coward as a guise to post their asinine opinions, which have no bearing in fact beyond their limited and quite naive unerstandings of what they dislike.
Excellent feature, especially with the latest OS udpate. It takes less than a second to bring up results from a cold start and I have over a terabyte of disk space on my main Mac. I get the same results on my PB with its internal 4200 RPM 60G. Very impressive. It was a bit rough with the first release, but it was still tremendously faster than Window's search feature. Macs have always been way faster in this area though, even before Spotlight.
I tried Google Desktop Search for my PCs, which was recommended by a friend, but compared to Spotlight, it's an abomination,
I upgrade my PCs about every 2 years, I upgrade my Macs every 3-6 years. Each OS X update has only increased the speed of my Macs. Every Windows update and service pack update has only bogged down my PCs, which is why I have to upgrade them more often. My PB 1Ghz is 3.5 years old and it's faster today, then it was when I bought it, and this is because of Apple's OS optimization. My XP3200 and MP2800 are both feeling slow these days.
Sole source solutions/peripherals? That's BULLSHIT!!! If you hadn't noticed, Macs like PCs have USB ports, so all the same USB devices I was using back in 99 still work on my Macs and my PCs today. Unless USB goes away, I won't have to replace any of my perhiperals until they die. Macs use the same perhiperals as PCs, lots of things have changed in the past decade. If you're refering to video cards, OS X has support for cards going back to the late ninties. Sure you can't run the latest and greatest CORE GPU effects on them, but they still work.
First of all, upgrading is a choice, not a requirement. Apple provides incremental updates for free, which are basically the same as service packs, meaning that 10.3.1 - 10.3.9 were free for Panther owners as an example. The difference between 10.4 and 10.3 as noted by others, is basically difference between XP and Win2k. You can't compare a Service Pack to a completely new version of an OS, that's like comparing a security update to a SP.
Apple on average upgrades their OS every 2 years and at just over $100, they are a way better deal than MS's limited offerings. XP Pro cost me more than my Tiger and Panther upgrades combined. When it comes to features, stabibilty and security, just to name a few, XP pro was a complete rip-off when compared to any version of OS X.
I've been doing research on the newer tablets that implement WACOM digitizers, since I'm an artist and came upon the above link when trying to find out their specs. The first tablet I tried out was only touch screen and the problem with that, is that if you wrest your hand on it for sketching, or writing, it screws everything up. A digitizer using WACOM's tech, even though it's dated with no "tilt" feature, and only 256 levels of pressure sensitivity, is vastly more accurate than any touch screen I've tried, and more importantly, you can wrest your hand any where on the screen.
IMO, these things are just too big and kind of fall into an awkward inbetween area, where a product really isn't needed. They're too big to be convient like a PDA and are too limited to replace a notebook. I just can't see that many peeps buying one, since a notebook can provide soo much more for not much more. Samsung's version is selling for $1100, which makes it way too expensive for what it can't do.
I personally would like one of these, since they're full fledge computers in a smaller package, but at $3k, I'll be investing in a Wacom 21UX instead; http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc_ le1600.asp(These things can be upgraded to 180 viewing angles.)
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Electronic cotton candy. I never thought about it that way. But that fits quite well, as does fast-cooked society.:D When I was younger and single, I definitely fit those descriptions, but now that I'm older, I've slowed down and have cut back on buying most new gadgets. I've been telling myself for a year to buy a Treo 650, but the other part of me tells me that I don't need it.
Anyways, more rambling.:)
It's a strange time when most kids I encounter own more cell phones and PDAs then I've owned.
So we can probably expect iPod docs in Disney land, where kids can download free songs or video to entertain themselves in line?
I personally don't mind DRM, if it truly does protect the artist's music and doesn't hinder me from doing what I want. Sony's DRM was and probably still is a nightmare compared to how easy Apple made it. I will always buy CDs over compressed music and will curse the day that they're no longer available. I'm just happy that none of the CDs I've bought recently have had DRM on them. I fall into that, just take care of me category, but give me the freedom of choice.:)
I can't stand in-ear headphones like the iPods (They make my ears bleed.) and prefer speakers to headphones any day. I think the last time I used headphones when walking, was when I was in high school. I had to compromise though, since I sometimes work all night and my speakers were loud enough that my neighbors could hear them. I also needed them for when I'm working at a clients. I ended up buyhing some studio headphones and they're confortable enough that my ears arn't bothered and have a good range of sound.
What I really like about the iPod though, is that I no longer need to worry about carrying around my CDs, and that the music I listen to on my desktop at home, ports seamlessly to my Powerbook when I'm out an about.
it's kind of weird that Apple is in basically a position of Sony right now. I've been an Apple user for just over 11 years now, so I'm happy to see their popularity reach this height. I'm just glad that it's not MS in Apples's position. I'm not a fan of mediocrity. This probably makes me a hypocrite though, because I've been using PCs for almost twice as long as Macs.:p
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Have you been sleeping for twenty years?:) Apple is one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. They've always had a major role in media production and once again are dominating many production areas, besides 3D. Suddenly happened with the iMac back in 98.. Now I'm just going to ramble.
I for one love my iPod. It does exactly what I want it to do, without the BS like the horrid Sony device I own along with others that were utter garbage all around. So if owning a device that works absolutely great and makes it extremely easy to get my CDs onto it in a format I like, even the CD's own format, then I'm a Pod Person.:p It has been a huge sucess for Apple, for more than 4 years now and has by far outsold even Sony's Walkman.
Pixar has been around for 2 decades now and pioneered many of the 3D techs that are used in various software packages and video cards. Toy Story is considered a classic. Their story telling and quality of production is second to none and they've managed to produced some of the best movies over the past decade. So I hope that this merger means that Disney will regain some of the magic it lost well over a decade ago.
I for one would rather see Apple out front over most other companies. They do have their evil side, but they're not nearly as bad as others and have only made my life easier and more productive with their products. Consider the alterantive; Another company which has billions just to blow Balmer's nose has done very little to make our lives better and would eventually ilke to reach a point where we're all paying them a monthly fee and they're no longer innovating.
Blah, I'm done rambling.
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Their software will allow you to change the speed multiplier from 1x, 2x and 4x along with adjusting the mouse tracking. It does cost money, but you'll end up with a much nicer mouse than Apple's models. The version they ship with the DP 1Ghz is EVIL.:) I have black and white version of that mouse collecting dust along side my Wacom mice.:)
My friend switched over last year and was griping about the same thing and this fixed it for him.
I need to look it up again, but the new Intel Macs have somethign similar to Apple's ROM, or it's another ROM, which can not be coppied without doing so illegally. So unless Dell backwards engineers Apple's tech, they would have to break the law to install it on their machines.
I personally don't recall any court case involving OS X and clones. Jobs killed off the clones, by not renewing their license for newer versions of Apple's ROM when they would not re-negoiate their terms. This was back in 97, way before OS X.
I remember requesting a 300 Mhz G3 from Power Computing, only to see it killed by Apple, which then introduced a 266 with a slower backside cache. Blah...
First of all, I speak with experience, since I have 2 PCs in my office and 3 Macs and video work is part of my income.
Quicktime on the Mac is absolutely great mainly because it's so tightly integrated into the system and has sooo many years of development under its belt. The only drawback, is that if you want to save a video directly, go full screen, play back MPeg2s in it, or use it to export to other formats, you'll need to pay Apple $30 for the pro license. Earlier versins of QT did all of this for free. I own the pro license for both my Macs and PCs, so I'm not bothered by those deliberate shortcomings.
QT pro is quite uesfull for me on both platforms and for what it can do, at only $30, if you need these features, is a much better bargain than any other similar app I could find. Just to give you an example, there are some codecs that I still can not convert on my Mac, mainly the old Indeo formats. When it comes to my PC software, I'm cheap, so I didn't want to spend that much on an app that could convert these videos into a format I could edit, so I spent days looking for preferably a free convertor for Windows and checked out demos of apps that could do it for under $200. I finally found a convertor that actually worked, at just over double the price of QT Pro and its final result wasn't that great, with a noticable loss of quality from the original no matter how I tweaked its limited settings. I always export to a raw format if possible, so that I can keep any loss of quality to a minimum, since I'll be recompressing later on. Anyways, I ended up buying QT Pro, since it can export these f*ed up codecs and at only $30 it did exacatly what I needed it to do with the desired and predictable results. My only other option(s), would've been to spend $400 on Cleaner XL for the PC, or some other similar app. And from experience, PCs now days can be quite slow when compared to Macs for video work in general, mainly because of Windows, so the last thing I'd want to do is spend that much money on a comp that's much better suited for other tasks. (I'm probably going to tick of some ignorant Anonymous Coward with that comment.) I also own Cleaner 6 for the Mac, which is a complete POS!!! So I defintely didn't want to give Discreet at the time more money.
QT on the PC is good now days IMO, but just like iTunes it's a step down from its Mac counterpart. I personally haven't had any issues in the past couple of years, but I do recall when QT was complete crap on a PC and on older configurations and in some cases with newer comps, it still is.
Here's another case where QT Pro is actualy better than MP, at least version 10 and that's in Mpeg2 playback speed. This was the case last year, so if MS has released a fix, I haven't updated my PC in over 5 months. MP9 on the PC has never had an issue and it's what one of my clients used to view the mpeg2s I created for his company, before putting it on their propietory boxes for further testing. After the techs upgraded his system to WMP 10, I got a call asking why my latest video wasn't palying smoothly. Anyways, I hadn't changed my settings before compressing and had a set standard I had to encode each video to. I ended up bringing my Powerbook down, showed him it played fine, where as his 3.4 GHz was now chocking, and it wasn't until we finally tested it on another PC in his office that still was using WM9, that it was not longer my problem. To finish my ramblings, his company purchased QT Pro for his PC and sure enough it played just as smoothly as it had with WM9.
WMV on the Mac has never improved. It suffers from poor play back speed, where a VLC and MPlayer will hand the same WMVs perfectly. I own Flip4Mac, so that I can convert WMVs into friendly format for my video apps, but every other month or so, I'm running into new videos that it can't play. Then they update it, it works, then once again, I run into more WMVs that will not play on it.
IMO, WMV definitely sucks worse in this case, because even though QT is
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SGI refrigerators were cool in the 20th century.:) These apps will run on a Dual-Opteron with Linux. I honestly do not know when they were ported, but I do recall when they were exclusively on SGI and that was years ago.
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I guess you've never heard of these products, which currently dominate the PC desktop for video effects/compositing in the pro area where it matters;
But you're correct when comparing AE to Combustion, but even it's gaining ground. I love AE 6.5 Pro and would like to see evidence stating it's the king of the hill on the PC, so please point me to this good news?
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Why are you fretting so much about the Wii?
Its CPU is basically a G5 from what I've read. And from personal experience, a 970 FX can easilly destroys the P3/Celeorn-hybrid found in the XBox and the Custom G3 found in the GC. Your "hardly comment" only goes to show how ignorant you are about these things. The Wii's GPU is at least 4 or 5 generations ahead of its predecessor, so that's going to make a big difference in performance. It's also pretty much guaranteed that the Wii will have a PPU. If this is the case, it will make a substantial difference in performance for 3D games, and free up the CPU to do other tasks. A dedicated PPU would be much faster than the software route the X360 and PS3 have taken.
I found most of what you sated to be more inflammatory than instightful. But it's good that you pointed out the backwards compatibily. I know you were trying to use that to state your case, but it's one of the Wii's strengths and it's just another reason for me to buy one.
The Wiimote isn't an afterthought like Sony's hack-job as an example, so all Wii games that can benefit from it, will support it. This is why the Wii is going to be great and you honestly can't deny you would love this sort of thing on your favorite console. You're only "trying" to spread "misinformation" by stating things like a "handfull of games." Like that's going to change anything, since Nintendo has a huge line up of Wii games, which are wiimote-friendly, which will be ready for launch. A bundled "main" controller won't have problems getting support from developers; Get real!
Anway, most of your points can easilly be applied to the other consoles, since they're basically upgrades. They haven't changed gaming, they've only moved consoles up to the level of mid-ranged PCs when it comes to visual eye-candy. Nintendo's Wii is the only console that has brought something new to the plate and it has all the potentional to evovle gaming beyond the current state of same, which MS and Sony are moving forward with. An upgrade is better graphics and more power, not a whole new way to game, which only the Wii can offer.
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"Driers," you insignificant little tard. OMG!!!Llike.. Like, OMG!!! At this moment my arse is more interesting than your juvenal rhetoric. If you "owned" a Mac, ( Which I higly doubt. ) it's good to see that a moron of your calibre has stopped using one. I'm pretty sure if you did actually own one, you would have needed assistance just to turn one on.
You wipe floors with FreeType? Intersting, do you also wipe your arse with this sort of thing? And how often do you look at shit? STOP IT!!!
Thanks for the laugh, but maybe I shouldn't laugh at retards. Hey, don't forget your saftey helmet.
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It's definately a visually nice ugprade from WM 10, and it does look better than iTunes in some ways on my PCs, but it definately does not look better than iTunes on my Macs, which use their GPU to render true 32-bit windows with crystal-clear anti-aliased fonts. The Mac version of iTunes also has a very tiny footprint in memory for what it does, and uses virtually no CPU time to playback my Apple Lossless music; Less than 4% on average. True OS level integration with OS X makes it a completely different app than what it is on my PC. Just to clarify, it runs good on my PCs, but it runs great on my Macs. It runs better on my 3.5 year old PB, than it does on my newer and much faster Athlons.
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I'm into the black glossy look they used with WM 11, I actually just worked on a site design that used a similar treatment, but the buttoms are obnoxious in size and the fonts look bad. The non-aliased window and Window's close/minimise/maximise buttons also bring down its appearance in my book. And MS can thank Apple for glass/glossy look, not for coming up with it, but definately paving the road for its widespread implementation. Apple actually toned down their use of it with OS X 10.3. They relized that it was distracting for us pro-art-peeps, so minimalized its use.
Anway, I'll need ot download and try it out, but I can already tell that it doesn't look remotely as intuitive as iTunes, which is way more important than a purdey interface.
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The Wii has more than momentum, it has changing power. It's the only system that can offer something new and at an affordable price. I doubt Sony will be on top this time around.
Stronger brand can only carry a company so far and Sony has ticked off many peeps, including me with their missleading products. Sony's biggest problem is how they've used their brand. Sony has been riding its name for years, while neglecting their customers and the quality of their products.
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Yep. Their press video contains footage of a guy playing virtual drums with two Wiimotes.
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My friends and I have been talking about the boxing thing and you were thinking about it, so I'm pretty sure someones developing it.
Sooo many possibilities have just been opened up. I'm truly excited about owning a Wii.
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I've honestly never tried, but I found this link that might help;
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:) I would like to pick up a copy of SS1 on eBay, or wherever and give it a try.
:) I just recall Shodan always contacting me at the worst times possible and scaring the crap out of me.
:( I got to a point that I couldn't go any further, decided to buy the stradegy guide, since I had encountered a bug with UW, and sure enough, it was another bug. *grumbles* I would like to finish UW and UW2 some day, I just need to find the time and pickup the games again. I regret selling all of my old DOS games, they're still some of my favorites.
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69578
I own SS2 still, but sold my SS1 along with my old P90@100 back in 95. Kind of wish I hadn't done that now. But things worked out I guess.
I have Dosbox on my Macs. I own PCs also of course.
I didn't know that SS1 was being updated. I hope it pans out.
I'll have to pull out my copy of DX and give it another try. I felt the same way about NPCs. But I have to say that being led on with the possibility of others to assist, but then hear them killed added to the game for me, since it really let me know that I was truly alone on this space station.
Same here about UW, I put weeks into it. Unfortanely I encountered a bug at the very end. I know this, because after getting completely stuck and not being able to open the last door, re-tracking all of steps many-many times, I finally gave-up and bought the strategy guide. I learned that I had everything I needed, had flipped the levers in the correct order, but could never get the last door opened no matter how many times I tried.
I played UW2 about half way, the game was great to that point, but it also glitched on me.
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I've played both and love both, but quirks like infinite monster respawn in the second one made it feel like more of a FPS for me. Also, even though the choice of different classes in the beginning sounded great, it ended up taking away from the game's story. The first SS1 was honed to the role of only a hacker, so its story felt more complete for me, where as SS2 seemed to have gaps here an there. Even though they improved the graphics and gave the game the ability to use the mouse for aiming in SS2, they ended up watering down the rest of it. Even some controls had been removed. I recall that I could no longer crouch around corners, to shoot either high or low. I'm sad, because this was one of my most anticipated games and it ended up falling short. :( I remember trying it at E3 and being so excited about the prospect of it being developed.
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As a whole though, SS1 was by far the most intriguing, well balanced game that I've ever played. The second one didn't scare me like others have noted, where as the first one freaked me out more than a few times. I felt like I had just saved the universe after completing it.
Thief was also made by the same guy as SSx and Deus X. I've never played it, because it constantly crashed on my old Win2K PC. I'm sure it would work on any of my XP PCs though. I started on Deus X, but sadly didn't finish it. It had inherited lots of the things that bothered me about SS2. I'm still planning on playing it though. I have no doubt that's 10 fold better than most of the dumbed-down crap now days.
Looking Glass Technology was my favorited game company. I was sorely disappointed to see them go. Ultima Underworld was also another masterpiece crafted by them. It was the very first continous dungeon game and it offered a level of weopon control that still has not been matched by any other game that I know of, not even modern games like the stiff-controled-Oblivion.
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I didn't know that music player implied a poorly constructed - failure proned - virus infestation. Now that's just the hardware portion, the included software is actually worse.
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As usual, when someone is as ignorant as this troll, they'll use Anonymous Coward as a guise to post their asinine opinions, which have no bearing in fact beyond their limited and quite naive unerstandings of what they dislike.
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I grow impatient waiting, because this thing looks like it will be loads of fun.
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Excellent feature, especially with the latest OS udpate. It takes less than a second to bring up results from a cold start and I have over a terabyte of disk space on my main Mac. I get the same results on my PB with its internal 4200 RPM 60G. Very impressive. It was a bit rough with the first release, but it was still tremendously faster than Window's search feature. Macs have always been way faster in this area though, even before Spotlight.
I tried Google Desktop Search for my PCs, which was recommended by a friend, but compared to Spotlight, it's an abomination,
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I upgrade my PCs about every 2 years, I upgrade my Macs every 3-6 years. Each OS X update has only increased the speed of my Macs. Every Windows update and service pack update has only bogged down my PCs, which is why I have to upgrade them more often. My PB 1Ghz is 3.5 years old and it's faster today, then it was when I bought it, and this is because of Apple's OS optimization. My XP3200 and MP2800 are both feeling slow these days.
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Sole source solutions/peripherals? That's BULLSHIT!!! If you hadn't noticed, Macs like PCs have USB ports, so all the same USB devices I was using back in 99 still work on my Macs and my PCs today. Unless USB goes away, I won't have to replace any of my perhiperals until they die. Macs use the same perhiperals as PCs, lots of things have changed in the past decade. If you're refering to video cards, OS X has support for cards going back to the late ninties. Sure you can't run the latest and greatest CORE GPU effects on them, but they still work.
Here's a linke to Apple's official supported hardware. Some of these Macs were released 7 years ago; http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.
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First of all, upgrading is a choice, not a requirement. Apple provides incremental updates for free, which are basically the same as service packs, meaning that 10.3.1 - 10.3.9 were free for Panther owners as an example. The difference between 10.4 and 10.3 as noted by others, is basically difference between XP and Win2k. You can't compare a Service Pack to a completely new version of an OS, that's like comparing a security update to a SP.
Apple on average upgrades their OS every 2 years and at just over $100, they are a way better deal than MS's limited offerings. XP Pro cost me more than my Tiger and Panther upgrades combined. When it comes to features, stabibilty and security, just to name a few, XP pro was a complete rip-off when compared to any version of OS X.
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Like Zoidberg's house burning down at the bottom of the ocean, this only raises more question. :p
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Actually in the past, most tablets were only touch screens, which kept me away from them.
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http://www.tabletpctalk.com/faqs/hwcomparison2003
I've been doing research on the newer tablets that implement WACOM digitizers, since I'm an artist and came upon the above link when trying to find out their specs. The first tablet I tried out was only touch screen and the problem with that, is that if you wrest your hand on it for sketching, or writing, it screws everything up. A digitizer using WACOM's tech, even though it's dated with no "tilt" feature, and only 256 levels of pressure sensitivity, is vastly more accurate than any touch screen I've tried, and more importantly, you can wrest your hand any where on the screen.
IMO, these things are just too big and kind of fall into an awkward inbetween area, where a product really isn't needed. They're too big to be convient like a PDA and are too limited to replace a notebook. I just can't see that many peeps buying one, since a notebook can provide soo much more for not much more. Samsung's version is selling for $1100, which makes it way too expensive for what it can't do.
I personally would like one of these, since they're full fledge computers in a smaller package, but at $3k, I'll be investing in a Wacom 21UX instead;
http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc
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Ahhh, life is full of repetitions. :)
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Electronic cotton candy. I never thought about it that way. But that fits quite well, as does fast-cooked society. :D When I was younger and single, I definitely fit those descriptions, but now that I'm older, I've slowed down and have cut back on buying most new gadgets. I've been telling myself for a year to buy a Treo 650, but the other part of me tells me that I don't need it.
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Anyways, more rambling.
It's a strange time when most kids I encounter own more cell phones and PDAs then I've owned.
So we can probably expect iPod docs in Disney land, where kids can download free songs or video to entertain themselves in line?
I personally don't mind DRM, if it truly does protect the artist's music and doesn't hinder me from doing what I want. Sony's DRM was and probably still is a nightmare compared to how easy Apple made it. I will always buy CDs over compressed music and will curse the day that they're no longer available. I'm just happy that none of the CDs I've bought recently have had DRM on them. I fall into that, just take care of me category, but give me the freedom of choice.
I can't stand in-ear headphones like the iPods (They make my ears bleed.) and prefer speakers to headphones any day. I think the last time I used headphones when walking, was when I was in high school. I had to compromise though, since I sometimes work all night and my speakers were loud enough that my neighbors could hear them. I also needed them for when I'm working at a clients. I ended up buyhing some studio headphones and they're confortable enough that my ears arn't bothered and have a good range of sound.
What I really like about the iPod though, is that I no longer need to worry about carrying around my CDs, and that the music I listen to on my desktop at home, ports seamlessly to my Powerbook when I'm out an about.
it's kind of weird that Apple is in basically a position of Sony right now. I've been an Apple user for just over 11 years now, so I'm happy to see their popularity reach this height. I'm just glad that it's not MS in Apples's position. I'm not a fan of mediocrity. This probably makes me a hypocrite though, because I've been using PCs for almost twice as long as Macs.
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Ye have a funny perspective on things... :)
:) Apple is one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. They've always had a major role in media production and once again are dominating many production areas, besides 3D. Suddenly happened with the iMac back in 98.. Now I'm just going to ramble.
:p It has been a huge sucess for Apple, for more than 4 years now and has by far outsold even Sony's Walkman.
Have you been sleeping for twenty years?
I for one love my iPod. It does exactly what I want it to do, without the BS like the horrid Sony device I own along with others that were utter garbage all around. So if owning a device that works absolutely great and makes it extremely easy to get my CDs onto it in a format I like, even the CD's own format, then I'm a Pod Person.
And if you were refering to running Linux on an iPod? It has been done and available for some time now; http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipodlinux/
Pixar has been around for 2 decades now and pioneered many of the 3D techs that are used in various software packages and video cards. Toy Story is considered a classic. Their story telling and quality of production is second to none and they've managed to produced some of the best movies over the past decade. So I hope that this merger means that Disney will regain some of the magic it lost well over a decade ago.
I for one would rather see Apple out front over most other companies. They do have their evil side, but they're not nearly as bad as others and have only made my life easier and more productive with their products. Consider the alterantive; Another company which has billions just to blow Balmer's nose has done very little to make our lives better and would eventually ilke to reach a point where we're all paying them a monthly fee and they're no longer innovating.
Blah, I'm done rambling.
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Their software will allow you to change the speed multiplier from 1x, 2x and 4x along with adjusting the mouse tracking. It does cost money, but you'll end up with a much nicer mouse than Apple's models. The version they ship with the DP 1Ghz is EVIL. :) I have black and white version of that mouse collecting dust along side my Wacom mice. :)
My friend switched over last year and was griping about the same thing and this fixed it for him.
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I need to look it up again, but the new Intel Macs have somethign similar to Apple's ROM, or it's another ROM, which can not be coppied without doing so illegally. So unless Dell backwards engineers Apple's tech, they would have to break the law to install it on their machines.
I personally don't recall any court case involving OS X and clones. Jobs killed off the clones, by not renewing their license for newer versions of Apple's ROM when they would not re-negoiate their terms. This was back in 97, way before OS X.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clones
http://lowendmac.com/history/1997dk.shtml
I remember requesting a 300 Mhz G3 from Power Computing, only to see it killed by Apple, which then introduced a 266 with a slower backside cache. Blah...
The PowerPC was jointly designed and developed by this alliance.
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First of all, I speak with experience, since I have 2 PCs in my office and 3 Macs and video work is part of my income.
Quicktime on the Mac is absolutely great mainly because it's so tightly integrated into the system and has sooo many years of development under its belt. The only drawback, is that if you want to save a video directly, go full screen, play back MPeg2s in it, or use it to export to other formats, you'll need to pay Apple $30 for the pro license. Earlier versins of QT did all of this for free. I own the pro license for both my Macs and PCs, so I'm not bothered by those deliberate shortcomings.
QT pro is quite uesfull for me on both platforms and for what it can do, at only $30, if you need these features, is a much better bargain than any other similar app I could find. Just to give you an example, there are some codecs that I still can not convert on my Mac, mainly the old Indeo formats. When it comes to my PC software, I'm cheap, so I didn't want to spend that much on an app that could convert these videos into a format I could edit, so I spent days looking for preferably a free convertor for Windows and checked out demos of apps that could do it for under $200. I finally found a convertor that actually worked, at just over double the price of QT Pro and its final result wasn't that great, with a noticable loss of quality from the original no matter how I tweaked its limited settings. I always export to a raw format if possible, so that I can keep any loss of quality to a minimum, since I'll be recompressing later on. Anyways, I ended up buying QT Pro, since it can export these f*ed up codecs and at only $30 it did exacatly what I needed it to do with the desired and predictable results. My only other option(s), would've been to spend $400 on Cleaner XL for the PC, or some other similar app. And from experience, PCs now days can be quite slow when compared to Macs for video work in general, mainly because of Windows, so the last thing I'd want to do is spend that much money on a comp that's much better suited for other tasks. (I'm probably going to tick of some ignorant Anonymous Coward with that comment.) I also own Cleaner 6 for the Mac, which is a complete POS!!! So I defintely didn't want to give Discreet at the time more money.
QT on the PC is good now days IMO, but just like iTunes it's a step down from its Mac counterpart. I personally haven't had any issues in the past couple of years, but I do recall when QT was complete crap on a PC and on older configurations and in some cases with newer comps, it still is.
Here's another case where QT Pro is actualy better than MP, at least version 10 and that's in Mpeg2 playback speed. This was the case last year, so if MS has released a fix, I haven't updated my PC in over 5 months. MP9 on the PC has never had an issue and it's what one of my clients used to view the mpeg2s I created for his company, before putting it on their propietory boxes for further testing. After the techs upgraded his system to WMP 10, I got a call asking why my latest video wasn't palying smoothly. Anyways, I hadn't changed my settings before compressing and had a set standard I had to encode each video to. I ended up bringing my Powerbook down, showed him it played fine, where as his 3.4 GHz was now chocking, and it wasn't until we finally tested it on another PC in his office that still was using WM9, that it was not longer my problem. To finish my ramblings, his company purchased QT Pro for his PC and sure enough it played just as smoothly as it had with WM9.
WMV on the Mac has never improved. It suffers from poor play back speed, where a VLC and MPlayer will hand the same WMVs perfectly. I own Flip4Mac, so that I can convert WMVs into friendly format for my video apps, but every other month or so, I'm running into new videos that it can't play. Then they update it, it works, then once again, I run into more WMVs that will not play on it.
IMO, WMV definitely sucks worse in this case, because even though QT is
SGI refrigerators were cool in the 20th century. :) These apps will run on a Dual-Opteron with Linux. I honestly do not know when they were ported, but I do recall when they were exclusively on SGI and that was years ago.
I guess you've never heard of these products, which currently dominate the PC desktop for video effects/compositing in the pro area where it matters;
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But you're correct when comparing AE to Combustion, but even it's gaining ground. I love AE 6.5 Pro and would like to see evidence stating it's the king of the hill on the PC, so please point me to this good news?