I always wondered about that. I was shocked to see people using the white earbuds because that image always said, to me, "I'm wearing a nineteen-fifties-style hearing aid," rather than "I have disposable income."
Well, that or "I had disposable income but it wasn't enough for the iPod and nice earphones."
Setting all that aside, shouldn't the developers be porting the games? Maybe Apple's strategy should be to somehow offer a subsidization of the work involved porting new games to an unpopular platform?
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Hear here! Why didn't you login to post? This is a real comment; with insight, to boot!
I've had a pair of monitors at home (and another pair here at work) for quite a while and I too am thinking of adding a third.
There's plenty of things for that other monitor to display without resorting to movie playback.
Email client, irc client, compiler progress, IM client, development environment, media player
Email client, irc client, BT client, IM client, media player, game
800x600 browser, email client, irc client, IM client, development environment, media player
query window, email client, IM client, media player, browser-containing-specifications, a few folders, etc
Ditto that, man. I plugged in an old HDD, to look for some things, which hadn't been accessed in 2+ years. I found conversations with a now-ex girlfriend, some coworkers I haven't seen in forever, etc.
Maybe I'm a freak, but I don't throw information away. I don't just write "quick" little emails, either.
However, I can already search my IM logs, email, and other forum output (irc, etc) with a nice tool that has very little to do with google. In fact, some of you might have it as well, try the following commands: 'which grep' and 'man grep' and see what I mean.
Sure. And at the other end of the spectrum is this little gem that makes me wonder about the youth of today:
"Oh, I was letting my friend borrow my screenname."
What the fuck? Over. Are AOL accounts (or any IM protocol) not free anymore? When I was a kid, we had to be encouraged not to say "get your own" and now that there's a good reason to, the kids have finally learned to share?!
So I read this and I'm thinking "1986? Wtf, there's no way there was anything like that in 1986."
...I guess we weren't in 6th grade at the same time.
Seriously, these things have been attempted many times over the years; it would be very nice if someone would get it right. Chatting via mmorpg + teamspeak (or equivalent) is the closest thing, I guess.
But it brings up another point in that "natural activities" could be interpretted as input!
We already hear our opticians tell us we're not blinking often enough while at our workstations; users of this technology will have to remember not only to blink, but also to turn away from the display first?
Not a paid shilling, but I do know the guy that makes these. They're pretty sturdy if you need something a bit more capable than a home NAT box. That said, here:
We don't know how these games run or why they require admin authority.
I don't know every reason, but I can think of a couple/few. User settings, registration key, common component registration, may "require" permission to write to the registry. I say this in quotes because, aside from the component registration which should be done as admin at install-time, these settings can and should be doable without administrative privilege.
The really recent games on that list (if any, I didn't look at release dates) have no good excuse for requiring this at runtime of the game engine, however I'm not at all surprised that it wasn't even thought of. Consider that writing to the windows registry might've even seemed to be the "proper" way to store settings. It's backed up automatically and was believed to be not as easy to find and adjust by the end-user.
How many developers have we worked with who refused to use an older method to accomplish a task simply because it was older? I worked with a guy who argued against the use of an ini-file to store settings (he wanted to use the registry) because it was, and I will quote, "archaic". That application was almost designed to require administrative access at runtime because of such ideas.
I may be mistaken, but I believe that these games were published or distributed by microsoft. Not "written" or "made by" microsoft. Age of Empires (II) was made by uh, Ensemble Studios or something.
That said, you'd still hope they'd find a more-secure spot to write down the user's config. Wasn't there a branch on the root of the registry that was writeable without administrator permission? Is an ini-file impossible to consider as the settings store of a freakin' game?
It's up, it's just hitting the limit of simultaneous connects. I'm surprised it didn't get deep into swap first; maybe the guy lowered the cap before submitting the article.
There's a difference that we're all missing. Home users: your friends, my friends, you, me. We may choose not to pay for all our software. That will seem like a buttload of piracy, right? Sure. However...
Businesses in the USA and (I assume) other countries (that are not China or similar) pretty much have to pay for their software.
Ditto honest consultants that produce income from their stuff.
Ditto anyone who simply doesn't know how to pirate software. You've heard of these folks before, they're the same people who have zombied windows boxes connected to comcast.net cable internet service.
To be a little bit on-topic (of the original post anyway), I think it's pointless to discuss UI differences between real diehard mac users and everyone else. It really boils down to brain-hemisphere dominance. I've seen guys sit down to write code with one hand in their lap and another hand on the mouse. I wince, as if struck, at the very memory of it.
I recommend Macintosh to those guys, sure. That and a career in something other than software development.
This is not to say that I believe everything should be CLI, I love a nice UI, just as much as anyone else; but there should be support for both input methods for every task that doesn't involve drawing or visual-layout. Let the user interface with the machine in the manner which is most comfortable and efficient to the user.
If you're talking about authoring a novel, writing code, or responding to emails all day, there just needs to be a way to allow those of us who type 120wpm to get our jobs done.
PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY YOU'D WANT NON-VOLATILE RAM if it's going to be erased on boot anyway?
You wouldn't. But that's not really the question, is it? The question (or rather, the answer) is that you would have a choice of powering down and emptying memory, or just powering down.
I've decided to omit the "minimum profanity" you've requested, as there's no mention of the desired quantity or measurement listed in your post.
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Well, that or "I had disposable income but it wasn't enough for the iPod and nice earphones."
Setting all that aside, shouldn't the developers be porting the games? Maybe Apple's strategy should be to somehow offer a subsidization of the work involved porting new games to an unpopular platform?
I've had a pair of monitors at home (and another pair here at work) for quite a while and I too am thinking of adding a third.
There's plenty of things for that other monitor to display without resorting to movie playback.
- Email client, irc client, compiler progress, IM client, development environment, media player
- Email client, irc client, BT client, IM client, media player, game
- 800x600 browser, email client, irc client, IM client, development environment, media player
- query window, email client, IM client, media player, browser-containing-specifications, a few folders, etc
The list goes on, and on, and on...Maybe I'm a freak, but I don't throw information away. I don't just write "quick" little emails, either.
However, I can already search my IM logs, email, and other forum output (irc, etc) with a nice tool that has very little to do with google. In fact, some of you might have it as well, try the following commands: 'which grep' and 'man grep' and see what I mean.
That was Windows98 and MSIE 4.0, btw. y'know, just in case you were wondering how that turned out.
Not to be flamebait, however, because I think Apple has a better eye turned towards security in 2004 than Microsoft did in 1998.
Am I missing a requirement? This seems like it shouldn't be an issue.
Maybe we should stay away from bandwagons entirely? :)
"Oh, I was letting my friend borrow my screenname."
What the fuck? Over. Are AOL accounts (or any IM protocol) not free anymore? When I was a kid, we had to be encouraged not to say "get your own" and now that there's a good reason to, the kids have finally learned to share?!
Yeah, I'm going to need you to go ahead and move your .sig just as close to that back wall as you can. Thaaaaanks.
Thanks, and make sure to carbon each VP and appropriate secretaries.
Seriously, these things have been attempted many times over the years; it would be very nice if someone would get it right. Chatting via mmorpg + teamspeak (or equivalent) is the closest thing, I guess.
But it brings up another point in that "natural activities" could be interpretted as input!
We already hear our opticians tell us we're not blinking often enough while at our workstations; users of this technology will have to remember not only to blink, but also to turn away from the display first?
On a serious note, what kind of repetitive strain injuries should we expect from this type of device?
I, for one, would like to welcome our new facially-spastic overlords?
Perhaps you'd best be off to Toschi station to pick up a few more of those? :)
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The really recent games on that list (if any, I didn't look at release dates) have no good excuse for requiring this at runtime of the game engine, however I'm not at all surprised that it wasn't even thought of. Consider that writing to the windows registry might've even seemed to be the "proper" way to store settings. It's backed up automatically and was believed to be not as easy to find and adjust by the end-user.
How many developers have we worked with who refused to use an older method to accomplish a task simply because it was older? I worked with a guy who argued against the use of an ini-file to store settings (he wanted to use the registry) because it was, and I will quote, "archaic". That application was almost designed to require administrative access at runtime because of such ideas.
That said, you'd still hope they'd find a more-secure spot to write down the user's config. Wasn't there a branch on the root of the registry that was writeable without administrator permission? Is an ini-file impossible to consider as the settings store of a freakin' game?
Still pretty nasty, and "udderly" offtopic!
It's up, it's just hitting the limit of simultaneous connects. I'm surprised it didn't get deep into swap first; maybe the guy lowered the cap before submitting the article.
Not only that, but the 403.9 we're getting is returned by Microsoft IIS. And only two comments posted? That one sure didn't last long.
Businesses in the USA and (I assume) other countries (that are not China or similar) pretty much have to pay for their software.
Ditto honest consultants that produce income from their stuff.
Ditto anyone who simply doesn't know how to pirate software. You've heard of these folks before, they're the same people who have zombied windows boxes connected to comcast.net cable internet service.
To be a little bit on-topic (of the original post anyway), I think it's pointless to discuss UI differences between real diehard mac users and everyone else. It really boils down to brain-hemisphere dominance. I've seen guys sit down to write code with one hand in their lap and another hand on the mouse. I wince, as if struck, at the very memory of it.
I recommend Macintosh to those guys, sure. That and a career in something other than software development.
This is not to say that I believe everything should be CLI, I love a nice UI, just as much as anyone else; but there should be support for both input methods for every task that doesn't involve drawing or visual-layout. Let the user interface with the machine in the manner which is most comfortable and efficient to the user.
If you're talking about authoring a novel, writing code, or responding to emails all day, there just needs to be a way to allow those of us who type 120wpm to get our jobs done.
Au contraire, they did indeed. No one here seems to have read the full article (oOo, also RTFA). Witness the very last line of said article:
You wouldn't. But that's not really the question, is it? The question (or rather, the answer) is that you would have a choice of powering down and emptying memory, or just powering down.
I've decided to omit the "minimum profanity" you've requested, as there's no mention of the desired quantity or measurement listed in your post.
(soooo offtopic, but I couldn't resist)