This isn't a troll, it seems pretty legitimate. I never owned a mac myself but from the macheads I've spoken to there have been some excellent games for Mac and the Mac had nothing stopping it from being a worthy and powerful gaming platform.
Microsoft invested in the gaming market quite heavily with DirectX, and DirectX has made PC gaming very uniform and broad reaching, so developers don't have to know what kind of sound card there is and they don't have to know what kind of graphics card there is, the API's just pull everything together. (Remember old DOS games where you had to punch in the IRQ details for your sound card?)
Is it true that Apple didn't help out games developers enough? Or is the parent really a troll? If so, why hasn't gaming been bigger on the Mac?
Why not? They took over the PC world with Windows. I don't see why this approach won't work, they seem to have it all figured out.
Windows didn't have to be the best, it had to be good enough at what it does, just like a weed. It moves into a new market, reproduces itself like crazy, strangles any incumbents using whatever means available, then consolidates and preserves the new environment for sustained dominance and access to even more markets.
They did it with desktop OS's, they did it with server OS's, they're doing it with gaming (consider Micrsofts console market position 3 years ago compared to today). Why can't they keep pushing into this new market?
I'm not sceptical at all. I've seen the evidence. This has every chance of success. And to be honest, implementation aside the vision actually sounds pretty good.
The question is, will the open source movement be able to adapt to rival microsoft in this space? Will there be XNA compatible toolsets? Or will they do the same thing they did with DirectX and hold their collective hands over their ears and repeat "I'm not listening!"?
Principle shooting on Return of the King was done way before Ep3, but that's not the point either.
Tolkien had the whole lava thing done decades ago.
But Lucas has always had in the back of his mind that Vader got the way he did from all the lava. Of course in his initial conceptualisations Boba Fett and Darth Vader are the same character but that's a different story.
Now I don't get the problem with the nonsensical force fields. Most of the huge ubertech in Star Wars is completely nonsensical.
Why do they have so many walkways in really dangerous places without handrails? (See ANH, ESB)
Why do they build a Death Star with a force of engineers intelligent enough to build a planetoid, and leave a gaping security hole big enough for an old guy hiding in a rebel cave to find in about 20 minutes?
True, the Borg were a seemingly undefeatable foe that somehow got relegated to the same threat levels as Klingons. They diluted just about every unmitigatable threat that the borg posed when they were first introduced, ie, that they were unstoppable, they would not negotiate, they knew no mercy, fear, or pity.
So the first thing the Voyager crew does is humanise them.
Except the root of the word is different, and so the past tense is also different.
After you take a turn, you don't say "turnt" because that is incorrect. I don't make the rules, I just follow them.
Blest isn't correct, it's blessed. Bent is appropriate because the root word is bend. The closest parallel would be to suggest that "spilt" is correct instead of "spilled". However a quick check of my local english dictionary informs me that "spilled" and "spelled" are the correct past tense spellings.
This just serves as a very sad example where even people who purport to understand english are misled by the americans. (Misled, not mislet).
Yep, that would have to be the second most nasty way this spyware gets installed, through Kazaa and Bearshare and CuteFTP and AIM and all those other "free" softwares.
They measure the performance on big, ugly, chunky pages and images, basically the worst of the worst where Operas background loading and other rendering features come into play, and inclusive of most of the expanded functionality that Opera/Mozilla/MSIE uses comes into play. Of course lynx is probably much faster at displaying a pure-text html file.
It's a marketing thing. Marketing is often ignored in the open source arena, but Opera has a business model and they need to stick to it.
Unfortunately this means they have to make the browser appear rich and featurefilled to try and sell more copy.
Nonetheless I am quite happy to customise the interface. Just about everything I install I am quite used to customising to some extent.
I am sure just about everyone on slashdot customises their OS interface, web browser, mail client, IM client... just about everything in fact, before they use it.
www.everythingisnt.com will help you there. Mike's ad blocking hosts file has given me unparalleled peace and quiet. You can even add www.microsoft.com in as 0.0.0.0 if it makes you feel good.
There's your problem right there... Win95. What year is it now? 2004? Significantly later than 1995? Who uses a 9 year old operating system now anyway? (apologies to mainframe workers).
First thing I do after installing opera is turn all the superflous junk off. I like my real estate. That's when you see the true usability of Opera over most other browsers- you can customise it.
I suggest you try Opera again, this time remember who's in control.
Actually one of the key reasons for me using Opera is the customisable nature of the software. Unfortunately there are moves to make Opera purely a tabbed browsing application.
I am quite happy using my operating system to navigate different windows, and I see no need for an application to pick up tasks that are better suited to my operating environment.
Actually, here in Australia we use the Queens English, and that includes correct capitalisation, grammar, and spelling. By the way, it's spelled "spelled" not "spelt".
Regarding the DMCA: Thanks a lot America. Thanks for the DMCA, thanks for Reality Television, and thanks for helping the parent spell so badly.
Actually, after three seasons of Enterprise, I'm pretty happy with the characters in the show. No Wesley Crushers (Sorry clevernick, they kicked you out just when your character was getting interesting). No deanna trois! No Neelix! Good, solid, personable characters. All the characters have a serious side to them, which is exactly what us GenX'ers are expecting to see.
And the same thing happened to those godawful Kazon in Voyager. Remember those? The klingons with pinecones instead of crabs for heads?
DS9 had a pretty good run with the Dominion in all their different guises, the Cardassians (also good enemies at the latter half of TNG).
Voyager did much better once they ditched the Kazon and picked up the Borg and that fluidic-space species (4276?) as enemies.
Enterprise has great potential, they should be drumming up the Orions, the Gorn, the Klingons, the Romulans, and not mucking about with completely uninteresting species like the suliban. Having said that the Xindi could have worked out better as a nemesis, but I think they're doing okay.
Here's the unfortunate part, B5 climaxed too early because they told JMS he wasn't going to get his full 5 seasons, which is why everything ends halfway into season 4, and then the latter half of season 4 and most of season 5 are just filler. Even so it's still a great series, because JMS had a plan for the entire 5 season arc.
The storyline episodes you mentioned were definately the highlights of TNG. Patrick Stewart gave so much to the series, it's no wonder that he took over from John Frakes as the main character (watching the first season you can really see that Roddenberry expected Frakes to be the new hero Kirk-replacement and Stewart as more of a secondary character).
I'm pretty sure "The Inner Light" won some awards in fact. Certainly "Inner Light" and "Darmok" are some of the best science fiction to come out of Star Trek in its new guise. The concept of an entire civilisation using a probe to shoot memories into another being as the only way for it to survive even in part is definately in the SciFi bin.
I have to say I'm biased though because I'm actually enjoying Enterprise quite a bit. It's certainly better than the early seasons of DS9 or Voyager. I could never get used to those Kazon pine-cone heads. The actors show great quality in Enterprise, and the technological fix isn't always there like it used to be in the earlier Star Trek series. And no first contact!
They do use all the parts of the cow! Nothing gets wasted.
Ahh, you say, but there are parts of cow that I would never want to eat! Like the bunghole! Well have you ever eaten a sausage before? Then you've eaten said bunghole.
I didn't think about that, I haven't touched NT4.0 in ages. I imagine that that may still be an issue under Windows XP, especially if it's a member in an NT4.0 domain (remember those, kids?)
A mandatory profile would explain registry ACL's resetting if the keys are in HKCU, but I don't see how that would effect HKLM or similar keys, and I sure don't see how it could effect file ACL's.
Either way a clean rebuild would fix this problem, isolating the machine from the Domain would also work (using a local account).
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This isn't a troll, it seems pretty legitimate. I never owned a mac myself but from the macheads I've spoken to there have been some excellent games for Mac and the Mac had nothing stopping it from being a worthy and powerful gaming platform.
Microsoft invested in the gaming market quite heavily with DirectX, and DirectX has made PC gaming very uniform and broad reaching, so developers don't have to know what kind of sound card there is and they don't have to know what kind of graphics card there is, the API's just pull everything together. (Remember old DOS games where you had to punch in the IRQ details for your sound card?)
Is it true that Apple didn't help out games developers enough? Or is the parent really a troll? If so, why hasn't gaming been bigger on the Mac?
Why not? They took over the PC world with Windows. I don't see why this approach won't work, they seem to have it all figured out.
Windows didn't have to be the best, it had to be good enough at what it does, just like a weed. It moves into a new market, reproduces itself like crazy, strangles any incumbents using whatever means available, then consolidates and preserves the new environment for sustained dominance and access to even more markets.
They did it with desktop OS's, they did it with server OS's, they're doing it with gaming (consider Micrsofts console market position 3 years ago compared to today). Why can't they keep pushing into this new market?
I'm not sceptical at all. I've seen the evidence. This has every chance of success. And to be honest, implementation aside the vision actually sounds pretty good.
The question is, will the open source movement be able to adapt to rival microsoft in this space? Will there be XNA compatible toolsets? Or will they do the same thing they did with DirectX and hold their collective hands over their ears and repeat "I'm not listening!"?
Principle shooting on Return of the King was done way before Ep3, but that's not the point either.
Tolkien had the whole lava thing done decades ago.
But Lucas has always had in the back of his mind that Vader got the way he did from all the lava. Of course in his initial conceptualisations Boba Fett and Darth Vader are the same character but that's a different story.
Now I don't get the problem with the nonsensical force fields. Most of the huge ubertech in Star Wars is completely nonsensical.
Why do they have so many walkways in really dangerous places without handrails? (See ANH, ESB)
Why do they build a Death Star with a force of engineers intelligent enough to build a planetoid, and leave a gaping security hole big enough for an old guy hiding in a rebel cave to find in about 20 minutes?
True, the Borg were a seemingly undefeatable foe that somehow got relegated to the same threat levels as Klingons. They diluted just about every unmitigatable threat that the borg posed when they were first introduced, ie, that they were unstoppable, they would not negotiate, they knew no mercy, fear, or pity.
So the first thing the Voyager crew does is humanise them.
Here's a fact for you. It's important to understand that just because you think something has no spyware in it, doesn't mean it's safe.
Except the root of the word is different, and so the past tense is also different.
After you take a turn, you don't say "turnt" because that is incorrect. I don't make the rules, I just follow them.
Blest isn't correct, it's blessed.
Bent is appropriate because the root word is bend.
The closest parallel would be to suggest that "spilt" is correct instead of "spilled". However a quick check of my local english dictionary informs me that "spilled" and "spelled" are the correct past tense spellings.
This just serves as a very sad example where even people who purport to understand english are misled by the americans. (Misled, not mislet).
Yep, that would have to be the second most nasty way this spyware gets installed, through Kazaa and Bearshare and CuteFTP and AIM and all those other "free" softwares.
They measure the performance on big, ugly, chunky pages and images, basically the worst of the worst where Operas background loading and other rendering features come into play, and inclusive of most of the expanded functionality that Opera/Mozilla/MSIE uses comes into play. Of course lynx is probably much faster at displaying a pure-text html file.
Having said that, a full upgrade to MSIE6 SP1 is about 90MB. A full install of Opera 7.x including Suns Java (no more MS VM) is 14MB.
You were saying something about bloat?
Wait a minute... are you saying that you would rather install an entirely new web browser instead of customising the one you have?
What an interesting lifestyle.
What do you do when you want to customise your operating system?
It's a marketing thing. Marketing is often ignored in the open source arena, but Opera has a business model and they need to stick to it.
Unfortunately this means they have to make the browser appear rich and featurefilled to try and sell more copy.
Nonetheless I am quite happy to customise the interface. Just about everything I install I am quite used to customising to some extent.
I am sure just about everyone on slashdot customises their OS interface, web browser, mail client, IM client... just about everything in fact, before they use it.
Why should you treat Opera any different?
Actually despite all the functionality, Opera is still a very lean browser, and the rendering engine is still the fastest on the planet.
www.everythingisnt.com will help you there. Mike's ad blocking hosts file has given me unparalleled peace and quiet. You can even add www.microsoft.com in as 0.0.0.0 if it makes you feel good.
There's your problem right there... Win95. What year is it now? 2004? Significantly later than 1995? Who uses a 9 year old operating system now anyway? (apologies to mainframe workers).
First thing I do after installing opera is turn all the superflous junk off. I like my real estate. That's when you see the true usability of Opera over most other browsers- you can customise it.
I suggest you try Opera again, this time remember who's in control.
Actually one of the key reasons for me using Opera is the customisable nature of the software. Unfortunately there are moves to make Opera purely a tabbed browsing application.
I am quite happy using my operating system to navigate different windows, and I see no need for an application to pick up tasks that are better suited to my operating environment.
Actually, here in Australia we use the Queens English, and that includes correct capitalisation, grammar, and spelling. By the way, it's spelled "spelled" not "spelt".
Regarding the DMCA: Thanks a lot America. Thanks for the DMCA, thanks for Reality Television, and thanks for helping the parent spell so badly.
Actually, after three seasons of Enterprise, I'm pretty happy with the characters in the show. No Wesley Crushers (Sorry clevernick, they kicked you out just when your character was getting interesting). No deanna trois! No Neelix! Good, solid, personable characters. All the characters have a serious side to them, which is exactly what us GenX'ers are expecting to see.
And the same thing happened to those godawful Kazon in Voyager. Remember those? The klingons with pinecones instead of crabs for heads?
DS9 had a pretty good run with the Dominion in all their different guises, the Cardassians (also good enemies at the latter half of TNG).
Voyager did much better once they ditched the Kazon and picked up the Borg and that fluidic-space species (4276?) as enemies.
Enterprise has great potential, they should be drumming up the Orions, the Gorn, the Klingons, the Romulans, and not mucking about with completely uninteresting species like the suliban. Having said that the Xindi could have worked out better as a nemesis, but I think they're doing okay.
Here's the unfortunate part, B5 climaxed too early because they told JMS he wasn't going to get his full 5 seasons, which is why everything ends halfway into season 4, and then the latter half of season 4 and most of season 5 are just filler. Even so it's still a great series, because JMS had a plan for the entire 5 season arc.
No, here's why it's important that enterprise doesn't get cancelled.
If they cancel it, they'll use the money to make another reality show. Big brother. American Idol. Choose your own hell.
I'd much rather watch bad trek than reality, any time.
The storyline episodes you mentioned were definately the highlights of TNG. Patrick Stewart gave so much to the series, it's no wonder that he took over from John Frakes as the main character (watching the first season you can really see that Roddenberry expected Frakes to be the new hero Kirk-replacement and Stewart as more of a secondary character).
I'm pretty sure "The Inner Light" won some awards in fact. Certainly "Inner Light" and "Darmok" are some of the best science fiction to come out of Star Trek in its new guise. The concept of an entire civilisation using a probe to shoot memories into another being as the only way for it to survive even in part is definately in the SciFi bin.
I have to say I'm biased though because I'm actually enjoying Enterprise quite a bit. It's certainly better than the early seasons of DS9 or Voyager. I could never get used to those Kazon pine-cone heads. The actors show great quality in Enterprise, and the technological fix isn't always there like it used to be in the earlier Star Trek series. And no first contact!
They do use all the parts of the cow! Nothing gets wasted.
Ahh, you say, but there are parts of cow that I would never want to eat! Like the bunghole! Well have you ever eaten a sausage before? Then you've eaten said bunghole.
I didn't think about that, I haven't touched NT4.0 in ages. I imagine that that may still be an issue under Windows XP, especially if it's a member in an NT4.0 domain (remember those, kids?)
A mandatory profile would explain registry ACL's resetting if the keys are in HKCU, but I don't see how that would effect HKLM or similar keys, and I sure don't see how it could effect file ACL's.
Either way a clean rebuild would fix this problem, isolating the machine from the Domain would also work (using a local account).