Horseshit. They're running this stuff under Rosetta (oooh, a web browser is snappy on a 3.6ghz processor!), which does NOT run Altivec code. Altivec-enabled apps on a G5 will undoubtedly stomp a native Intel app on one of these developer rigs.
That, and this is Appleinsider, so take it with a grain of salt. These guys are way off the mark so often that it isn't even funny.
Hear hear! Alien Apocalypse sucked a hundred different kinds of ass. Bruce Campbell is nothing short of the man, but he was wasted on that. He only had one decent line throughout the whole flick. I watched that and thought, "Who in the hell writes this crap, and who the hell greenlights it?" I caught about fifteen minutes of the Shark Frenzy flick and felt nauseous. Poor Jeffery Combs. Once the Reanimator, now a shoddy B-Grade throwaway actor. That guy could be really creepy, but now he's getting watered down tripe. I seriously hope the Scifi starts cranking out some decent movies, or at least dumb B-Grade flicks that know they're stupid and have fun with it. Nothing is worse than a B-Grade turdburger that thinks it's an awesome movie.
Most of them are in Europe, most notably Germany?
You gotta admire their dedication. Two major defeats in the last century and they just keep on tryin'!
I don't need to move. I have a base in Moses Lake, WA (Shitsplat in the middle of nowhere) where the county is wired with fiber. I've got a 100Mbps up/down pipe. Can you beat that, Vermont? I'm running a webserver out of my house, and it does just dandy.
Or they could cling to the massive, hairy, corpulent body of Harry Knowles, who will more than likely be going with them and masturbating at each showing.
Ebert wouldn't know a good movie if it shoved a 2x4 up his ass...sideways. He gave Garfield 3 stars. He gave Edward Scissorhands 2. Where's the justice, you fat old bastard?
I firmly believe that MS bought Virtual PC not just for this reason, but to keep it from getting too good. Connectix was on their way to adding hardware video acceleration support when they got swallowed up. Now MS is keeping it slow enough and featureless enough that if someone needs to use a PC, they'll find VPC too slow and perhaps wind up getting a physical Windows box.
He didn't claim to INVENT the internet, but he did say, "...I took the incentive in creating the internet." A bit different, but it often gets spun off into saying he invented it. Probably more a poor choice of words than anything.
This is not good. Who knows what the Trekkies will do when they can't get their fix??? I think we're going to see Klingons pillaging and looting while the Federation suits aim plastic phasers at them, yelling "ZAP! ZAP!" Then the Klingons will start beating the snot out of them...if someone else doesn't beat them to the punch. Ugh, Trekkie LARPing will start moving into the real world...
Baloney. Who is going to confuse TigerDirect, a company that sells computer parts, and Tiger (10.4), an operating system? These guys don't have a leg on which to stand. It's a stunt in hopes of squeezing a few million out of Apple.
SF = big city = high cost of living + California = even higher cost of living. If you were making 38k in a more rural area, you could live quite comfortably.
I'm talking about Longhorn, you douche. I base those assumptions on MS claiming that a 1ghz machine is the low end for it, 256MB of RAM as well, although something tells me OS X will do much better with 256 than Longhorn. I'm not talking about XP.
Baloney. OS X runs decently on a 350mhz G3 with 256MB of RAM. As long as you're not firing up CPU and memory intensive apps, it's dandy for web browsing, word processing, and other homebody uses. I SERIOUSLY doubt that Shoehorn is going to be anywhere close to that. It's bloated like Patrick Deuel after an all-you-can-eat buffet.
I don't like DRM any more than the next guy (and yes, I have pirated movies/music/software), but who the hell is the French government to say what kind of copy protection companies can and cannot put on their own damn products? Like it or not, those companies OWN that content, and they are selling it to you. If they don't want you to copy it, they have every right to put a copy protection scheme on it beforehand. That doesn't mean that the buyer wont eventually crack it, but they can put it there.
Hey, let's all hop on the gravy train here. While we're at it, let's start bashing NDA's, EULAs, and anything else that puts any kind of restriction whatsoever on the use of media, because consumer freedom means being able to do anything you want!!
Again, I'm no schill for the RIAA/MPAA stuffed suits. Those guys are a bunch of assholes. But they do have the right to try and protect their products, at least as far as copy protecting it with harmless DRM that wont damage any equipment/data. All their pocket stuffing in governments and legal bullshit, however...
The RIAA/MPAA doesn't give a damn what the political parties are, and neither do the politicians. They'll buy out anyone in Washington that can be bought (ie, everyone). This crap is always co-sponsored by Dems and Repubs. Aint bipartisianship grand?
I don't mind George touching up on existing effects, removing matte lines, etc in the OT, but all the CGI horseshit was completely unnecessary. It did nothing to enhance the movie, and the bastard wouldn't even release the real OT again, calling it a "rough cut". Yeah, a rough cut that was a watershed moment in movie history. Lucas changed the industry forever nearly 30 years ago. Since then...nothing. The prequels were lousy, relying on tons of effects to tell the story rather than characters and plot. Nowhere near as good as the OT. Lucas lost it somewhere in his 15 year vacation. He's got no talent left. I doubt ROTS is going to beautifully tie it together, too, especially if the other two prequels are any indication.
Jesus H. Christ on a grilled cheese sandwich, give it up, George! You've raped Star Wars repeatedly in the ass with a razor-coated cock sheath while beating it over the head with a broken bottle and biting it in the neck! It's dead, you fucking necrophiliac! You've killed it, and yet you STILL want more? Burn in hell, Lucas.
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Horseshit. They're running this stuff under Rosetta (oooh, a web browser is snappy on a 3.6ghz processor!), which does NOT run Altivec code. Altivec-enabled apps on a G5 will undoubtedly stomp a native Intel app on one of these developer rigs. That, and this is Appleinsider, so take it with a grain of salt. These guys are way off the mark so often that it isn't even funny.
Hear hear! Alien Apocalypse sucked a hundred different kinds of ass. Bruce Campbell is nothing short of the man, but he was wasted on that. He only had one decent line throughout the whole flick. I watched that and thought, "Who in the hell writes this crap, and who the hell greenlights it?" I caught about fifteen minutes of the Shark Frenzy flick and felt nauseous. Poor Jeffery Combs. Once the Reanimator, now a shoddy B-Grade throwaway actor. That guy could be really creepy, but now he's getting watered down tripe. I seriously hope the Scifi starts cranking out some decent movies, or at least dumb B-Grade flicks that know they're stupid and have fun with it. Nothing is worse than a B-Grade turdburger that thinks it's an awesome movie.
"I also really enjoy the idea of using the system's GPU to offload the graphical stuff. Almost like having another processor in your machine."
Apple did this years ago with Quartz Extreme.
I just signed the bastard up for newsletters from fistmyass.com and sheshuge.com. Let's see how he likes tubby bitches and gaping cornholes.
Most of them are in Europe, most notably Germany? You gotta admire their dedication. Two major defeats in the last century and they just keep on tryin'!
I don't need to move. I have a base in Moses Lake, WA (Shitsplat in the middle of nowhere) where the county is wired with fiber. I've got a 100Mbps up/down pipe. Can you beat that, Vermont? I'm running a webserver out of my house, and it does just dandy.
Sheesh, what was he thinking when he wrote that? It's a PowerPC CPU.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl ftagn.
Or they could cling to the massive, hairy, corpulent body of Harry Knowles, who will more than likely be going with them and masturbating at each showing.
Ebert wouldn't know a good movie if it shoved a 2x4 up his ass...sideways. He gave Garfield 3 stars. He gave Edward Scissorhands 2. Where's the justice, you fat old bastard?
I firmly believe that MS bought Virtual PC not just for this reason, but to keep it from getting too good. Connectix was on their way to adding hardware video acceleration support when they got swallowed up. Now MS is keeping it slow enough and featureless enough that if someone needs to use a PC, they'll find VPC too slow and perhaps wind up getting a physical Windows box.
Maybe Dell bundles a muscular dwarf to carry the thing around for you.
He didn't claim to INVENT the internet, but he did say, "...I took the incentive in creating the internet." A bit different, but it often gets spun off into saying he invented it. Probably more a poor choice of words than anything.
This is not good. Who knows what the Trekkies will do when they can't get their fix??? I think we're going to see Klingons pillaging and looting while the Federation suits aim plastic phasers at them, yelling "ZAP! ZAP!" Then the Klingons will start beating the snot out of them...if someone else doesn't beat them to the punch. Ugh, Trekkie LARPing will start moving into the real world...
Baloney. Who is going to confuse TigerDirect, a company that sells computer parts, and Tiger (10.4), an operating system? These guys don't have a leg on which to stand. It's a stunt in hopes of squeezing a few million out of Apple.
True. Since when has Dvorak ever said something relevant (that wasn't already obvious), much less intelligent? The guy is a human urinal cake.
SF = big city = high cost of living + California = even higher cost of living. If you were making 38k in a more rural area, you could live quite comfortably.
I'm talking about Longhorn, you douche. I base those assumptions on MS claiming that a 1ghz machine is the low end for it, 256MB of RAM as well, although something tells me OS X will do much better with 256 than Longhorn. I'm not talking about XP.
Baloney. OS X runs decently on a 350mhz G3 with 256MB of RAM. As long as you're not firing up CPU and memory intensive apps, it's dandy for web browsing, word processing, and other homebody uses. I SERIOUSLY doubt that Shoehorn is going to be anywhere close to that. It's bloated like Patrick Deuel after an all-you-can-eat buffet.
...Beelzebub just bought himself a snowblower.
I don't like DRM any more than the next guy (and yes, I have pirated movies/music/software), but who the hell is the French government to say what kind of copy protection companies can and cannot put on their own damn products? Like it or not, those companies OWN that content, and they are selling it to you. If they don't want you to copy it, they have every right to put a copy protection scheme on it beforehand. That doesn't mean that the buyer wont eventually crack it, but they can put it there. Hey, let's all hop on the gravy train here. While we're at it, let's start bashing NDA's, EULAs, and anything else that puts any kind of restriction whatsoever on the use of media, because consumer freedom means being able to do anything you want!! Again, I'm no schill for the RIAA/MPAA stuffed suits. Those guys are a bunch of assholes. But they do have the right to try and protect their products, at least as far as copy protecting it with harmless DRM that wont damage any equipment/data. All their pocket stuffing in governments and legal bullshit, however...
The RIAA/MPAA doesn't give a damn what the political parties are, and neither do the politicians. They'll buy out anyone in Washington that can be bought (ie, everyone). This crap is always co-sponsored by Dems and Repubs. Aint bipartisianship grand?
I don't mind George touching up on existing effects, removing matte lines, etc in the OT, but all the CGI horseshit was completely unnecessary. It did nothing to enhance the movie, and the bastard wouldn't even release the real OT again, calling it a "rough cut". Yeah, a rough cut that was a watershed moment in movie history. Lucas changed the industry forever nearly 30 years ago. Since then...nothing. The prequels were lousy, relying on tons of effects to tell the story rather than characters and plot. Nowhere near as good as the OT. Lucas lost it somewhere in his 15 year vacation. He's got no talent left. I doubt ROTS is going to beautifully tie it together, too, especially if the other two prequels are any indication.
Jesus H. Christ on a grilled cheese sandwich, give it up, George! You've raped Star Wars repeatedly in the ass with a razor-coated cock sheath while beating it over the head with a broken bottle and biting it in the neck! It's dead, you fucking necrophiliac! You've killed it, and yet you STILL want more? Burn in hell, Lucas.
The translation of MS's statement: We can't get the damn thing working, so fuck it.