I grew up in Moses Lake, WA, which is about 30 miles SE of Quincy. This should be going into Moses Lake, but it isn't. We have goddamn fiber optics laid all over that town (and the county, exempting Quincy due to some sort of contract the PUD had with Verizon, I believe) going right up to people's houses. I enjoyed a 100Mbps symmetric connection for a while...then my bandwidth got capped. In fact, the PUD is charging the service providers so damn much for bandwidth, some have to cap it at 1Mbps down/512Kbps up. That's slower than fucking DSL and Cable! The local PUD is sitting on a fucking GOLDMINE and they're not doing a goddamned thing about it! They could have easily wooed MS and Yahoo into Moses Lake to build their datafarms there using the PUD's fiber network through the local providers (the PUD can't sell service, so they sell the use of the network to ISPs) and made things better in the town. But they're not doing shit. They haven't been doing much to promote, pitch, or package it for big guys to come in and build a major server farm out here. It pisses me off to no end to see those fuckers doing so little to help that town, and it needs all the help it can get. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Why would they need to? Warcraft III is their most demanding game next to WoW, and it runs better under Rosetta on my Core Duo iMac than it did on a 1.467ghz G4 with a Radeon 9800! Starcraft? They've already ported it to OS X, and it requires diddly squat as far as system resources these days. There is no need to make anything other than WoW (and future titles, of course) universal binary.
I wonder if Yahoo's video servers are going to be as monumentally shitty as their game servers, ie, a small cluster of overclocked 486's running Windows NT.
Bungie still hasn't said whether or not they'll port Halo 2 to OS X. If they don't, then they have really, truly sold out and lost whatever shred of decency they may have had left. Bungie got started doing games on the Mac, then moved into the Windows world. Gnop, Operation: Desert Storm, Minotaur, Pathways into Darkness, Marathon, Maraton 2, Marathon Infinity...all exclusively Mac, except for Marathon 2, which was later ported. Now they're not even throwing a bone to the very people that put them where they are now. Fucking despicable greedy sellout bastards.
Please. As if Bittorrent and P2P isn't already boosting internet traffic. Either people will watch the streaming downloads, or they'll download the movies another way. Looks like yet another cash grab.
Macaddict issue 27 had a virus on the CD. I remember some users reporting the havoc it wreaked. OS X doesn't have a SINGLE known virus. There is malware, no doubt, because no system will ever be free of that. But viruses? Not there.
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And I'll bet that Inspiron is bulky and heavy. Apple is interested in making sleek laptops, not portables. They can't please everyone.
Yahoo itself is a nightmare. They're good a concepts, but the execution sucks. Yahoo Messenger is without a doubt the buggiest piece of shit I've ever used. Their games are riddled with flaws and bugs. Their support fucking terrible. I pray that this tanks along with the rest of that miserable company.
What about...
AppleJacked - Grab the new features as soon as they're announced by the competition and shoehorn your own half-assed version into the aging, bloated code of your flagship product before your opponents!
SimFUD - Climb your way up the management ladder by making a better bullshit campaign about the evils of open source than your opponents!
Browserbash - A looming, rival product has stolen precious marketshare, and you need to go into the darkest, deepest depths of the basement to get your web browser development team out of cryogenic storage in time to stop them!
As well as PCIe being standardized and ramped up to be the next expansion architecture long before it ever got into a computer...and that Dell had nothing to do with 64 bit computing...they're blowing a lot of hot air because they used some stuff around the time it came out. Oooh, big deal. As for not being an MS/Intel puppet, Michael Dell made that comment as he took a break from giving Bill Gates a rusty trombone.
Baloney! Can you imagine the nightmare? Sure, Apple could get drivers for all kinds of devices, but when they hit the real world, it's going to be a goddamn mess! Conflicts, this driver doesn't work well with this one, big pain in the ass. The reason OS X works as well as it does is that Apple makes the hardware and the software and gets tight integration between the two. Apple may be able to handle support well enough, but the cost in goodwill to the company would be devastating. "Why would I want to get a Mac? OS X runs like crap!" Never mind that it runs like crap on his three year old eMachine. Your average user thinks like this, believe it or not. Not to mention that Apple is first and foremost a HARDWARE company. Selling OS X for PCs will utterly cannibalize their hardware sales. Apple tried clones before, and it didn't work out very well for them.
With 16 old Beige G3s, Mac OS 10.2.8, and XGrid PR2. Yeah, it was crap, but I did it just to do it. I got all sixteen running and ran some of the Xgrid scripts, but beyond that, I had no use for the damn thing. I only had 10Mbps hubs anyway. Built the thing for next to nothing, too.
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I grew up in Moses Lake, WA, which is about 30 miles SE of Quincy. This should be going into Moses Lake, but it isn't. We have goddamn fiber optics laid all over that town (and the county, exempting Quincy due to some sort of contract the PUD had with Verizon, I believe) going right up to people's houses. I enjoyed a 100Mbps symmetric connection for a while...then my bandwidth got capped. In fact, the PUD is charging the service providers so damn much for bandwidth, some have to cap it at 1Mbps down/512Kbps up. That's slower than fucking DSL and Cable! The local PUD is sitting on a fucking GOLDMINE and they're not doing a goddamned thing about it! They could have easily wooed MS and Yahoo into Moses Lake to build their datafarms there using the PUD's fiber network through the local providers (the PUD can't sell service, so they sell the use of the network to ISPs) and made things better in the town. But they're not doing shit. They haven't been doing much to promote, pitch, or package it for big guys to come in and build a major server farm out here. It pisses me off to no end to see those fuckers doing so little to help that town, and it needs all the help it can get. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
I think it comes with a muscular dwarf to haul it around for you.
They're going to realize before long that this is a real shitty worm...
Why would they need to? Warcraft III is their most demanding game next to WoW, and it runs better under Rosetta on my Core Duo iMac than it did on a 1.467ghz G4 with a Radeon 9800! Starcraft? They've already ported it to OS X, and it requires diddly squat as far as system resources these days. There is no need to make anything other than WoW (and future titles, of course) universal binary.
Except that Yahoo's game servers are total crap and often lag like they're connected by a 2400 baud modem.
I wonder if Yahoo's video servers are going to be as monumentally shitty as their game servers, ie, a small cluster of overclocked 486's running Windows NT.
Bungie still hasn't said whether or not they'll port Halo 2 to OS X. If they don't, then they have really, truly sold out and lost whatever shred of decency they may have had left. Bungie got started doing games on the Mac, then moved into the Windows world. Gnop, Operation: Desert Storm, Minotaur, Pathways into Darkness, Marathon, Maraton 2, Marathon Infinity...all exclusively Mac, except for Marathon 2, which was later ported. Now they're not even throwing a bone to the very people that put them where they are now. Fucking despicable greedy sellout bastards.
Korea is also completely wired with fiber optic, which is a lot easier to do in a relatively small and densely populated country.
Yeah, but now it's going to be HD porn traffic!
Please. As if Bittorrent and P2P isn't already boosting internet traffic. Either people will watch the streaming downloads, or they'll download the movies another way. Looks like yet another cash grab.
If Jack really wanted to solve the problem, he'd come up with a new teenage pass-time that they actually want to do more than games.
It's called masturbation.
Macaddict issue 27 had a virus on the CD. I remember some users reporting the havoc it wreaked. OS X doesn't have a SINGLE known virus. There is malware, no doubt, because no system will ever be free of that. But viruses? Not there.
And I'll bet that Inspiron is bulky and heavy. Apple is interested in making sleek laptops, not portables. They can't please everyone.
Yahoo itself is a nightmare. They're good a concepts, but the execution sucks. Yahoo Messenger is without a doubt the buggiest piece of shit I've ever used. Their games are riddled with flaws and bugs. Their support fucking terrible. I pray that this tanks along with the rest of that miserable company.
This is Berkeley we're talking about. The IT department probably turns half of their new hardware into bongs.
Looks like Cringley wants to compete with Dvorak for tech troll. The guy is an utter moron.
Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.
What about... AppleJacked - Grab the new features as soon as they're announced by the competition and shoehorn your own half-assed version into the aging, bloated code of your flagship product before your opponents! SimFUD - Climb your way up the management ladder by making a better bullshit campaign about the evils of open source than your opponents! Browserbash - A looming, rival product has stolen precious marketshare, and you need to go into the darkest, deepest depths of the basement to get your web browser development team out of cryogenic storage in time to stop them!
I think the bigger question is this: Can they mount those frickin' laserbeams on sharks?
As well as PCIe being standardized and ramped up to be the next expansion architecture long before it ever got into a computer...and that Dell had nothing to do with 64 bit computing...they're blowing a lot of hot air because they used some stuff around the time it came out. Oooh, big deal. As for not being an MS/Intel puppet, Michael Dell made that comment as he took a break from giving Bill Gates a rusty trombone.
Baloney! Can you imagine the nightmare? Sure, Apple could get drivers for all kinds of devices, but when they hit the real world, it's going to be a goddamn mess! Conflicts, this driver doesn't work well with this one, big pain in the ass. The reason OS X works as well as it does is that Apple makes the hardware and the software and gets tight integration between the two. Apple may be able to handle support well enough, but the cost in goodwill to the company would be devastating. "Why would I want to get a Mac? OS X runs like crap!" Never mind that it runs like crap on his three year old eMachine. Your average user thinks like this, believe it or not. Not to mention that Apple is first and foremost a HARDWARE company. Selling OS X for PCs will utterly cannibalize their hardware sales. Apple tried clones before, and it didn't work out very well for them.
With 16 old Beige G3s, Mac OS 10.2.8, and XGrid PR2. Yeah, it was crap, but I did it just to do it. I got all sixteen running and ran some of the Xgrid scripts, but beyond that, I had no use for the damn thing. I only had 10Mbps hubs anyway. Built the thing for next to nothing, too.
Yep. Beelzebub just bought a snowblower and John Wilkes Booth, Hitler, Al Capone, and Superman are passing out ice skates.
Not to mention fatassitis.
No, but I think Nicodemus knows it.