Virtualization is nice and all, but worthless for applications that need full video support (ie. games, modeling and video manipulation apps, etc). There's also Wine (including commercial offerings Crossover Office and Cedega, which are both working on OS X support right now), but it's still quite unreliable (and will always be). And the early Intel Core Duos in Macs don't have VT support, so forget about this one, at least for now.
Dual booting is annoying, but for many people it's still essential.
Gotta love how anti-PC gaming zealots rant about computers being more expensive than consoles, but then whine when people don't play consoles on overly expensive HDTV screens that cost much more than a computer.
(not that I'm calling you a zealot, just pointing out the obvious to all the zealots reading)
Of course you don't think it's low, you're a fucking Apple drone who believes everything coming from Apple is perfect because Steve Jobs tells you to. "Ha ha ha PC people are young and stupid! They shoot stuff at 8000 FPM (whatever the hell that is) and we are better than them! Steve Jobs says 1280x854 is enough, so it is enough! I have to throw some more money at Apple now, so good bye"
It's this kind of stupid elitist talk from Mac users that makes me think twice about buying a Mac. Will I become a dick like you if I get a Mac?
Notice how Apple doesn't call the CPUs "Pentium M". That's because Apple has worked so hard over the years brainwashing people into thinking "Pentium == crap". Now that they actually use one, they must _really_ not let their loyal customers know, or else Steve Jobs will be assassinated in a matter of days by crazy Apple zealots.
Modern motherboards actually have a remarkable resistance to short-circuits. A few years ago I built a computer from scratch, and did a very, very stupid thing: I bolted the motherboard right on the case, without using those weird screws that raise the board from the case. The result was a weird noise and some smoke as soon as I turned the PSU on, because a pin under the board was touching the case (d'oh).
I thought I ruined the board for sure, but nevertheless I tried taking off the board and re-bolting it in correctly, and to my surprise it worked fine! That same motherboard still runs fine to this day, even though there's a nasty melted pin surrounded by an ugly black spot where the short-circuit happened.
I REALLY hope this is going to have the original 80's pop music track, not the re-done version. I'm not holding my breath though, because I bet it's a legal nightmare to get rights for most of those old songs.
I recommend you don't get it then. This is only going to be good for nostalgic reasons. The show itself was a typical crappy 80's cartoon with pathetic live-action segments.
Now please excuse me while I head over to Amazon to pre-order it.
KDE is open source. All KDE libraries are either LGPL or BSD. The Free edition of Qt is GPL/QPL. All of those previously-mentioned licenses are OSI-approved.
Not to mention their homepage now talks more about donating money to them than anything else. As if there were any reason to give them money anymore. That's just sad.
Oh wait, they just released 4.5 and they say "it's just terrific"! Wow! I can't wait to try it in all those obscure Linux distributions that still use it (because they still haven't noticed X.org yet)!
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Windows needs BIOS interupts to bootstrap itself. Having EFI GRUB running wouldn't make any difference.
You nailed it right.
No. The "viral" argument is that GPL code can only be integrated in GPL software (or GPL-compatible software, see the FSF site for a list).
Virtualization is nice and all, but worthless for applications that need full video support (ie. games, modeling and video manipulation apps, etc). There's also Wine (including commercial offerings Crossover Office and Cedega, which are both working on OS X support right now), but it's still quite unreliable (and will always be). And the early Intel Core Duos in Macs don't have VT support, so forget about this one, at least for now.
Dual booting is annoying, but for many people it's still essential.
Gotta love how anti-PC gaming zealots rant about computers being more expensive than consoles, but then whine when people don't play consoles on overly expensive HDTV screens that cost much more than a computer.
(not that I'm calling you a zealot, just pointing out the obvious to all the zealots reading)
So they renamed the PowerBook line to MacBook Pro... What is the PowerMac line going to be renamed to? MacMac Pro?
Of course you don't think it's low, you're a fucking Apple drone who believes everything coming from Apple is perfect because Steve Jobs tells you to. "Ha ha ha PC people are young and stupid! They shoot stuff at 8000 FPM (whatever the hell that is) and we are better than them! Steve Jobs says 1280x854 is enough, so it is enough! I have to throw some more money at Apple now, so good bye"
It's this kind of stupid elitist talk from Mac users that makes me think twice about buying a Mac. Will I become a dick like you if I get a Mac?
Me too. Imagine the trillion dollar lawsuit that would follow...
Almost no professional app has been ported to x86 yet, and it'll probably stay that way until the x86 PowerMacs ship.
Bah. What we really want to know is what kind of black magic will we need to have retail OS X work on non-Macs.
Notice how Apple doesn't call the CPUs "Pentium M". That's because Apple has worked so hard over the years brainwashing people into thinking "Pentium == crap". Now that they actually use one, they must _really_ not let their loyal customers know, or else Steve Jobs will be assassinated in a matter of days by crazy Apple zealots.
Modern motherboards actually have a remarkable resistance to short-circuits. A few years ago I built a computer from scratch, and did a very, very stupid thing: I bolted the motherboard right on the case, without using those weird screws that raise the board from the case. The result was a weird noise and some smoke as soon as I turned the PSU on, because a pin under the board was touching the case (d'oh).
I thought I ruined the board for sure, but nevertheless I tried taking off the board and re-bolting it in correctly, and to my surprise it worked fine! That same motherboard still runs fine to this day, even though there's a nasty melted pin surrounded by an ugly black spot where the short-circuit happened.
I REALLY hope this is going to have the original 80's pop music track, not the re-done version. I'm not holding my breath though, because I bet it's a legal nightmare to get rights for most of those old songs.
I recommend you don't get it then. This is only going to be good for nostalgic reasons. The show itself was a typical crappy 80's cartoon with pathetic live-action segments.
Now please excuse me while I head over to Amazon to pre-order it.
Speaking of which, WTF is a "logic board" anyway? Is it just Apple's fancy-pants way of saying "motherboard"?
KDE is open source. All KDE libraries are either LGPL or BSD. The Free edition of Qt is GPL/QPL. All of those previously-mentioned licenses are OSI-approved.
Please keep your stupid anti-KDE FUD elsewhere.
You are right: SFU is a very misleading name. Everytime I read it, my brain interprets it as "Shut the Fuck Up".
Yeah, I was thinking the same too. XP Home on a dual-core CPU sounds pretty dumb to me.
You still haven't told us what's the deal with that "Linux fan" comment.
Not to mention their homepage now talks more about donating money to them than anything else. As if there were any reason to give them money anymore. That's just sad.
Oh wait, they just released 4.5 and they say "it's just terrific"! Wow! I can't wait to try it in all those obscure Linux distributions that still use it (because they still haven't noticed X.org yet)!
FF II also wasn't released outside Japan, AFAIK.
The story in Planescape Torment revolved around the amnesia of the main character.
So, is it on the Mac or for Mac?
Yes.
You were most likely using the GStreamer backend. Try the Xine backend instead.
GStreamer sucks, and it's not the Amarok devs' fault.