It's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, not Starship Titanic...
My favorite quote is about the 2nd worst poet in the galaxy, Grunthos the Flatulent. The quote was about his poem...I can't remember the quote off the top of my head, but it was about the poem "Ode to the Small Lump of Green Putty I Found Under My Armpit One Midsummer Morning." During the reading, 5 of the audience died of internal hemmorrhaging, and the president of galactic noble arts survived by gnawing his own leg off.
Oh, and theres the third worst poets in the universe, the Vogons...and the poem, "Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly"...
Thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop I implore thee, my froonting, turling dromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly Bindlewurdles, Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, See if I don't!
Actually, I find Mac OS X to run faster on my 1 GHz G4 than Mandrake Linux 10.0 on my 2.6 ghz Pentium 4.
That flashiness doesn't slow it down that much, you see...the Mac makes use of the 3d graphics card (which usually does almost nothing when you're not playing a 3d game) to control all the window effects.
As a result, the processor is hardly taxed.
They look the same on the outside, but as you can see if you bother looking at the picture, the two G5's have a completely different layout on the lower parts of the inside.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein(TM) - Mac Shrek 2(TM): The Game - Mac Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire(TM) - Mac SimCity(TM) 4 - Mac SimCity(TM) 4 Rush Hour - Mac Space Colony(TM) - Mac Spider-Man(TM) - Mac SpyHunter® - Mac Star Trek(TM): Voyager® Elite Force(TM) II - Mac The Lord of the Rings(TM); The Return of the King(TM) - Mac The Sims(TM) - Mac The Sims(TM) Hot Date - Mac The Sims(TM) House Party - Mac The Sims(TM) Livin' Large Combo - Mac The Sims(TM) Makin' Magic - Mac The Sims(TM) Superstar - Mac The Sims(TM) Unleashed - Mac The Sims(TM) Vacation - Mac Tiger Woods PGA® Tour 2003 - Mac Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon(TM): Desert Siege(TM) - Mac Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3: Raven Shield® - Mac Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® - Mac Tomb Raider® Chronicles - Mac Tomb Raider®: The Last Revelation - Mac Tony Hawk's Pro Skater(TM) 2 - Mac Tony Hawk's Pro Skater(TM)3 - Mac Tony Hawk's Pro Skater® 4 - Mac Wakeboarding Unleashed(TM) Featuring Shaun Murray - Mac X2 Wolverine's(TM) Revenge - Mac Zoo Tycoon(TM) - Mac Zoo Tycoon(TM): Marine Mania(TM) Expansion Pack - Mac
Virtual PC 7 will be able to use the graphics card, so you may be able to run some pretty good games.
A 1 GHz G4 can emulate a PC at about the speed of a 500 mhz Pentium 3. Perhaps a bit slower, but I've heard thats about the speed it runs at (that is, a 500 mhz P3 without a graphics card, since this is VPC 6 I'm talking about).
Going by that, a 3.5 ghz G5 (rumored to be in the next XBox) should run at equivilant to a 1.75 ghz PC, PLUS any speed enhancements from it being 64 bit and having a higher bus speed, minus any speed loss from the architecture differences from the G4. Plus theres the rumors that it might be a dual-core G5, meaning it might be even faster. PLUS the speed enhancements of being able to use the graphics card.
It'd probably be fast enough to run the original XBox games through emulation, and run Windows though emulation. Another possibility is that they might run a PowerPC version of Windows, with a VPC type emulator in the background to run the x86 exe's you might run on it.
Either way, it'd make a sweet Mac and/or Linux PC.
As I understand it, it should work with most hardware in the way of hard drives, CD/DVD drives, keyboards, mice, etc etc- all thats required is the PowerPC processor.
However, Apple might have put blocks on to prevent installation on non-Apple computers. I know that you can't install OS X on old beige G3's.
Which is why there are hacks that let you do it:) I've heard of people hacking OS X to install it on a beige G3.
Did you forget that it's going to be a G5 processor?
I will have a fully functional G5 Macintosh! Install OS X on that and I can party:)
I hate the XBox...but if I could turn it into a Mac, and it had good performance...:) I could have some serious fun. It would have a fast processor and a big graphics card.
In addition to the XBox Next games, I could play Mac OS X games!
So...what are the civilians going to DO in space?
Unlike astronauts, they don't have to take scientific readings of everything.
Other than the wow-factor of, "I've been in outer space!", there really isn't a reason for the average civilian to go...It's not like they're going to visit relatives on Mars;)
I've met a lot of people from many different countries. I've been in many different countries myself. And I have *never* seen anyone who talks or acts like Jar-Jar binks.
"Shallow characters made up of racist stereotypes."
You know, I can't stand it when people think that Star Wars is racist.
Just think how incredibly SILLY this is. Have you ever seen a person who talks and acts like Jar-Jar? Or a person that talks and acts like the Neimodians? NO, you haven't.
On the other hand, Star Trek makes all sorts of racist comments (Worf is always promoting Klingon superiority, complimenting people by saying, "You must have Klingon blood!" and a Klingon will ALWAYS be bloodthirsty, a Romulan will ALWAYS be duplicious, a Ferengi will ALWAYS be greedy...and you call Star Wars characters racist stereotypes?).
The problem is that if they switch to x86, suddenly every peice of Mac OS X software ever written for PPC OS X will no longer work.
What's the point of switching to another architecture if it voids every peice of software in existance? Everything will need to be recompiled for x86, and you will need to buy x86 versions of everything.
Let me get this straight... I won't get hacked because I leave my computers open to hackers?
Interesting...I wonder if this works in real life, too! Maybe if I leave my door open when I'm not home, I won't get robbed! And if I leave my car unlocked with the keys inside, it won't get stolen!
Well, now, this is the last thing I ever expected. I can't recall one instance of Microsoft backing out of a market once it had entered. Even when the competition has a staggeringly huge marketshare and better system in comparison (such as Microsoft Music Store coming soon vs iTunes).
Is this a change in Microsoft? Or are they just trying to focus their resources on monopolizing other markets instead?
3 years later, Windows XP is now 2 gigabytes (after it's been installed for a bit).
Assume this is a pattern. That would mean that the bloat of Windows multiplies by 20 times every 3 years.
That would mean that if Longhorn comes out around 2007...about 6 years after XP...it should take up around 800 gigabytes.
A 1 terabyte *minimum* hard drive should fit those minimum requirements perfectly. You still have 200 gigabytes of free space for your movies and music, and the more expensive hard drives will have a couple terrabytes.
By the time Tiger comes OUT, Windows 2000 will no longer be a release in the last 5 years.
Service packs don't count- They're about the equivilant of the 10.3.x combined patches from Apple.
Windows Server 2003 doesn't count either, *unless* you want to count servers.
If you want to count servers, then we can count the Mac OS X Server editions...
Meaning Apple will have released TEN operating systems (Mac OS X 10.0, Mac OS X Server, Mac OS X 10.1, Mac OS X Server 10.1, Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X Server 10.2, you get the picture) in the time it took Microsoft to release two...
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It's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, not Starship Titanic...
My favorite quote is about the 2nd worst poet in the galaxy, Grunthos the Flatulent. The quote was about his poem...I can't remember the quote off the top of my head, but it was about the poem "Ode to the Small Lump of Green Putty I Found Under My Armpit One Midsummer Morning." During the reading, 5 of the audience died of internal hemmorrhaging, and the president of galactic noble arts survived by gnawing his own leg off.
Oh, and theres the third worst poets in the universe, the Vogons...and the poem, "Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly"...
Thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my froonting, turling dromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly Bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
It is, isn't it? I found it awesome when I saw Spokane up there.
Let's see, 103 square miles.
WiFi would be spherical, or since we're using SQUARE miles, we'll just pretend it's 2D and use Circular.
The equation for the area of a circle is PiR^2 = A where A is Area. The Area is 103 miles, so PiR^2 = 103.
The square root of (103 divided by Pi) = 5.49, approximately.
So this "103 square mile" network is 5.5 miles radius. Not bad, though the number 103 miles makes it look bigger than it is.
Hope it stretches out to my house :)
Actually, I find Mac OS X to run faster on my 1 GHz G4 than Mandrake Linux 10.0 on my 2.6 ghz Pentium 4. That flashiness doesn't slow it down that much, you see...the Mac makes use of the 3d graphics card (which usually does almost nothing when you're not playing a 3d game) to control all the window effects. As a result, the processor is hardly taxed.
They look the same on the outside, but as you can see if you bother looking at the picture, the two G5's have a completely different layout on the lower parts of the inside.
Yup, definitely Windows.
My sister's iPod causes no problems whatsoever.
I know I already replied, but you're wrong about a few things.
As I already said, yes, it DOES play MP3's.
Also, it DOES rip CD's. Do it all the time.
It plays MP3s, AAC, WAV (i think)...the new iTunes for Windows even converts WMA to AAC. It plays almost anything except Ogg.
[i]3. That would suck, I wan't it to play all formats.(Does Ipod play ogg and mp3?...)[/i]
MP3, yes.
All seven of them?!
;)
Aspyr, one company, sells all these Mac games:
Return to Castle Wolfenstein(TM) - Mac
Shrek 2(TM): The Game - Mac
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire(TM) - Mac
SimCity(TM) 4 - Mac
SimCity(TM) 4 Rush Hour - Mac
Space Colony(TM) - Mac
Spider-Man(TM) - Mac
SpyHunter® - Mac
Star Trek(TM): Voyager® Elite Force(TM) II - Mac
The Lord of the Rings(TM); The Return of the King(TM) - Mac
The Sims(TM) - Mac
The Sims(TM) Hot Date - Mac
The Sims(TM) House Party - Mac
The Sims(TM) Livin' Large Combo - Mac
The Sims(TM) Makin' Magic - Mac
The Sims(TM) Superstar - Mac
The Sims(TM) Unleashed - Mac
The Sims(TM) Vacation - Mac
Tiger Woods PGA® Tour 2003 - Mac
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon(TM): Desert Siege(TM) - Mac
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3: Raven Shield® - Mac
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® - Mac
Tomb Raider® Chronicles - Mac
Tomb Raider®: The Last Revelation - Mac
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater(TM) 2 - Mac
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater(TM)3 - Mac
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater® 4 - Mac
Wakeboarding Unleashed(TM) Featuring Shaun Murray - Mac
X2 Wolverine's(TM) Revenge - Mac
Zoo Tycoon(TM) - Mac
Zoo Tycoon(TM): Marine Mania(TM) Expansion Pack - Mac
I think there's more than seven
However, you have to consider a couple things.
Virtual PC 7 will be able to use the graphics card, so you may be able to run some pretty good games.
A 1 GHz G4 can emulate a PC at about the speed of a 500 mhz Pentium 3. Perhaps a bit slower, but I've heard thats about the speed it runs at (that is, a 500 mhz P3 without a graphics card, since this is VPC 6 I'm talking about).
Going by that, a 3.5 ghz G5 (rumored to be in the next XBox) should run at equivilant to a 1.75 ghz PC, PLUS any speed enhancements from it being 64 bit and having a higher bus speed, minus any speed loss from the architecture differences from the G4. Plus theres the rumors that it might be a dual-core G5, meaning it might be even faster. PLUS the speed enhancements of being able to use the graphics card.
It'd probably be fast enough to run the original XBox games through emulation, and run Windows though emulation. Another possibility is that they might run a PowerPC version of Windows, with a VPC type emulator in the background to run the x86 exe's you might run on it.
Either way, it'd make a sweet Mac and/or Linux PC.
As I understand it, it should work with most hardware in the way of hard drives, CD/DVD drives, keyboards, mice, etc etc- all thats required is the PowerPC processor.
:)
However, Apple might have put blocks on to prevent installation on non-Apple computers. I know that you can't install OS X on old beige G3's.
Which is why there are hacks that let you do it
I've heard of people hacking OS X to install it on a beige G3.
Don't forget- it's a G5. Unless they recompile Windows to run on PowerPC and use Virtual PC to run programs, they can't really run Windows on it.
:D
And even if they did, we could hack it and put Linux and Mac OS X on it.
I would. Why?
:)
Did you forget that it's going to be a G5 processor?
I will have a fully functional G5 Macintosh! Install OS X on that and I can party
I hate the XBox...but if I could turn it into a Mac, and it had good performance...:) I could have some serious fun. It would have a fast processor and a big graphics card.
In addition to the XBox Next games, I could play Mac OS X games!
So...what are the civilians going to DO in space?
;)
Unlike astronauts, they don't have to take scientific readings of everything.
Other than the wow-factor of, "I've been in outer space!", there really isn't a reason for the average civilian to go...It's not like they're going to visit relatives on Mars
I heard an interesting comment about a company's Mac tech support today.
"Sure our software is Mac-compatible; all you need is Virtual PC. Did we forget to say that on the box? Sorry, no refunds."
I've met a lot of people from many different countries. I've been in many different countries myself. And I have *never* seen anyone who talks or acts like Jar-Jar binks.
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I highly recommend that you read this article:
http://stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Racism.htm
"Shallow characters made up of racist stereotypes."
You know, I can't stand it when people think that Star Wars is racist.
Just think how incredibly SILLY this is. Have you ever seen a person who talks and acts like Jar-Jar? Or a person that talks and acts like the Neimodians? NO, you haven't.
On the other hand, Star Trek makes all sorts of racist comments (Worf is always promoting Klingon superiority, complimenting people by saying, "You must have Klingon blood!" and a Klingon will ALWAYS be bloodthirsty, a Romulan will ALWAYS be duplicious, a Ferengi will ALWAYS be greedy...and you call Star Wars characters racist stereotypes?).
Really, people, think before you speak.
The problem is that if they switch to x86, suddenly every peice of Mac OS X software ever written for PPC OS X will no longer work.
What's the point of switching to another architecture if it voids every peice of software in existance? Everything will need to be recompiled for x86, and you will need to buy x86 versions of everything.
Let me get this straight...
I won't get hacked because I leave my computers open to hackers?
Interesting...I wonder if this works in real life, too! Maybe if I leave my door open when I'm not home, I won't get robbed! And if I leave my car unlocked with the keys inside, it won't get stolen!
Well, now, this is the last thing I ever expected.
;)
I can't recall one instance of Microsoft backing out of a market once it had entered. Even when the competition has a staggeringly huge marketshare and better system in comparison (such as Microsoft Music Store coming soon vs iTunes).
Is this a change in Microsoft? Or are they just trying to focus their resources on monopolizing other markets instead?
Probably the latter
Now I can use it to power my computer without having to pay electric bills!
Wait...what happens when it is cloudy?
Of course, we all know the electric companies are going to call this "stealing energy" and patent the sun...
When it comes to handhelds, portability is also a factor. I don't want to be carrying a fat portable playstation if it uses disks...
Let's look at Microsoft's patterns.
Windows 98 was what, 100 megabytes?
3 years later, Windows XP is now 2 gigabytes (after it's been installed for a bit).
Assume this is a pattern. That would mean that the bloat of Windows multiplies by 20 times every 3 years.
That would mean that if Longhorn comes out around 2007...about 6 years after XP...it should take up around 800 gigabytes.
A 1 terabyte *minimum* hard drive should fit those minimum requirements perfectly. You still have 200 gigabytes of free space for your movies and music, and the more expensive hard drives will have a couple terrabytes.
See the pattern?
By the time Tiger comes OUT, Windows 2000 will no longer be a release in the last 5 years.
Service packs don't count- They're about the equivilant of the 10.3.x combined patches from Apple.
Windows Server 2003 doesn't count either, *unless* you want to count servers.
If you want to count servers, then we can count the Mac OS X Server editions...
Meaning Apple will have released TEN operating systems (Mac OS X 10.0, Mac OS X Server, Mac OS X 10.1, Mac OS X Server 10.1, Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X Server 10.2, you get the picture) in the time it took Microsoft to release two...