Agreed... I have a 1GHz TiBook (circa August 03) and I've found one thing: if you keep a CPU monitor up, and kill processes that are using more CPU power than you want them to use, Odds are you lap will be completely safe. (I highly recommend MenuMeters for CPU monitoring.)
If I had to guess, I would say 90% of the people who complain about short battery life and hot PB's probably have some process running that takes up a ton of CPU and therefore is heating up your book.
Below a certain share they will suffer the same fate as Netscape or Apple,
You imply that Netscape and Apple shared a fate of some sort.... I don't see the connection, unless you're trying to relate Netscape becoming Mozilla to Apple adopting Unix. Care to enlighten me?
The same " At no time is there every a picture displayed on the screen" thing is true for a computer monitor, do I turn into an zombie when I surf the internet too?
Some of us avoid that question altogether by using an LCD.....you insensitive clod! XD
I don't know about the networks on this list, but at the University of Cincinatti, you have to register your MAC address with your student ID number... however it didn't seem to rank on the list. The wireless coverage is decent, actually; I'm surprised it wasn't on there... A lot of the campus is covered.
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It's not hard to take advantage of. Run it on a 100MHz (or the lowest speed this thing'll run at) computer on a slow-ass connection, you'll only send out a few spams, but get paid the same.
Don't forget people who get items wholesale. I got a brand-new (still in the package) pair of headphones, MSRP $90, for $24 including shipping.... some guy got a boatload of em I guess.
I second that, although you'll probably get an unfair sample here as the Yahoo! and Slashdot communities don't have a lot of overlap. Personally, my "over-the-operating-system site" of choice is Spymac... it's dethroned Slashdot as my homepage, a feat unto itself, and it's leeching its way into the rest of my computing life as well: I used it to host MP3's I wanted some friends to identify for my iTunes library; it's hosting some pictures from iPhoto; and Spymac Backup is going to back up all my important stuff to it, whenever they iron out the bugs.
Unless of course, you want a faster speed. By my understanding Bluetooth is about 1/10 the speed of wifi (unless I heard wrong.) And that's just 802.11b, not g.
OTOH this guy isn't really reviewing anything... he's just bitching about electronics in general. Had he mentioned a single specific model whose blue lights he didn't like it might be something of a review.... but he just made generalizations like "a USB hub".
That doesn't change the fact that he's getting free stuff. He should stop complaining.
There are 2 possibilities: 1) He's buying all this stuff himself. In which case, he shouldn't complain, because he picked the ones with the blue LED's. 2) He's getting free shit from manufacturers. In which case, he shouldn't complain, because he's getting free shit. One of the other comments mentioned that he should share all his free toys with those of us who don't mind blue LEDs so much. I concur.
Well you could build such an engine off of my friend's engine. The problem, I think, is simply power: there's not enough power to create an outdoor environment with enough detail to create the "illusion of space" you describe. I think the best example I have seen of a game that did that was Smuggler's Run, and early PS2 game. The graphics were pretty amazing, and you could see for miles - it really did look like the great outdoors, and it ran at 60fps. If you've never seen it and are interested in a good-looking, wide-open outdoor environment, I'd recommend renting it or the sequel. (though not having played the sequel, I can't say if it was as good)
I guess it would depend on how the keys work (which I don't claim to be an expert on in any sense) but how possible is it for someone to write a program which adds text to the end of a given string to make it match the given key?
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Well it's designed to run any sort of game, and a number of different "plugins" (a C++ class inheriting from an abstract plugin class) allow specialization as the given genre demands. So far using this engine a lot of 2D games have been developed - a working DDR clone (albeit only with keyboard support and crummy graphics), a decent version of Asteroids (vector graphics, scrolling, camera zoom, camera rotation, minimap/radar, running at 60fps or better - Asteroids is the testbed for most of the engine's new toys), a Commander Keen-like platformer (bitmap-based graphics with camera rotation and hundreds of enemies on screen with virtually no slowdown), an ASCII shoot-em-up and a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. There's also a primitive vector-3D game (6-player Pong with 5 computers:)....) using the engine.
The core engine itself mainly contains only a few pieces that are common to most genres: graphics management (which is then passed off to a renderer of your choice), UI element handling, collision detection, and the like.
The engine also has built-in scripting and a console mode (where the game pauses and you can enter commands as if part of a script, which is very cool, and very useful for debugging - stuff like SET_X PLAYER 120... and yes the console can be disabled)
What I want to know - aside from getting a higher quality file (duboius at best) what's the point? It's not like this is legal, you might as well just download the songs anyway. (Unless you have a particularly large legal library or dialup, I suppose)
1) It's not on Freshmeat - it will be in-house. 2) He has $23,000 set away for starting a game company - the plan is to start a game company and have our first game on the market about the time we graduate college. Unrealistic dream? Maybe. Also, you don't know my friend. He's not only a genius, but actually sticks to what he's creating until it's done... with the exception of when he learns a new trick that makes his program 10% more efficient... but yeah...
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My friend is working on a multipurpose game engine, with the ability to "plug in" different graphics managers - so you can have the beauty of DirectX 9 on your Windows version, and seamlessly switch to OpenGL when you port it to Mac OS.
Or should I say, when I port it to Mac OS, since that's my job. I wish I had the slightest idea how his engine worked... He has all sorts of complicated code that compiles fine on his x86, but is gcc-unfriendly.:-(
I think it actually IS just a program with the extension and icon of an mp3, which happens to send an MP3 to itunes or your default player to make the user think it was a normal mp3.
They could feasably patch for it by, when anything that looks like a file that's not an executable, actually IS, displaying a warning to the user.
Claiming that your system can't be exploited on Slashdot is, really, an exceptionally bad idea.
This is exactly why I believe OSX is so secure. OSX users have bragged countless times about the security of their OS. And what have we gotten? This pathetic excuse of a Trojan?
Insular: an "insular community" is something of an oxymoron, but Mac communities tend to be relatively accepting of people who don't own Macs, as long as they don't hate Macs either. (If you hate Macs what the hell are you doing at that forum anyway?) I never got into any forums of the others, but if real-world experience is anything like the forums, Windows would be the most insular. "Your computer should do this... well here's your solution.... buy a PC..." (And before that gets quoted, they're usually talking about something that takes a few seconds of work, example, Windows networking.)
Conformant: Excuse me? You're thinking Windows. "I don't know what OS to get.... I'll get the one everyone else seems to be getting." Macheads could be seen as conformant to Apple's programs, but only because Apple's programs tend to kick other programs' ass. (Mail.app vs Entourage, Safari vs. IE; the Mozilla equivalents are nearly the same, featurewise, as the Mac versions, only less pretty.) Linux users could be seen as Slashbots.
Intolerant: You know why Macs and Linux aren't more common in the workplace? Because Microsoft's software is closed-standard (AKA "intolerant") - and in many cases, ignorant sysadmins refuse to support other OS's even if it involves little more than flipping a switch.
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Agreed... I have a 1GHz TiBook (circa August 03) and I've found one thing: if you keep a CPU monitor up, and kill processes that are using more CPU power than you want them to use, Odds are you lap will be completely safe. (I highly recommend MenuMeters for CPU monitoring.)
If I had to guess, I would say 90% of the people who complain about short battery life and hot PB's probably have some process running that takes up a ton of CPU and therefore is heating up your book.
Psst.... should we tell him that Powerbooks [mine at least] measure brightness based on 16 rather than 10? Nahhh.....
I do agree, though - I turn the brightess down a lot when I'm not plugged in; I've been sitting here about an hour on battery and I still have >65%.
Below a certain share they will suffer the same fate as Netscape or Apple,
You imply that Netscape and Apple shared a fate of some sort.... I don't see the connection, unless you're trying to relate Netscape becoming Mozilla to Apple adopting Unix. Care to enlighten me?
And don't forget, odds are that your music library has more than 12 songs, unlike radio stations.
The same " At no time is there every a picture displayed on the screen" thing is true for a computer monitor, do I turn into an zombie when I surf the internet too?
....you insensitive clod! XD
Some of us avoid that question altogether by using an LCD.
Wow, that took skill. You got double the amount of karma by omitting that info from your first post. Congrats. ;)
I don't know about the networks on this list, but at the University of Cincinatti, you have to register your MAC address with your student ID number... however it didn't seem to rank on the list. The wireless coverage is decent, actually; I'm surprised it wasn't on there... A lot of the campus is covered.
It's not hard to take advantage of. Run it on a 100MHz (or the lowest speed this thing'll run at) computer on a slow-ass connection, you'll only send out a few spams, but get paid the same.
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Get a Beowulf cluster of those....
Don't forget people who get items wholesale. I got a brand-new (still in the package) pair of headphones, MSRP $90, for $24 including shipping.... some guy got a boatload of em I guess.
I second that, although you'll probably get an unfair sample here as the Yahoo! and Slashdot communities don't have a lot of overlap. Personally, my "over-the-operating-system site" of choice is Spymac... it's dethroned Slashdot as my homepage, a feat unto itself, and it's leeching its way into the rest of my computing life as well: I used it to host MP3's I wanted some friends to identify for my iTunes library; it's hosting some pictures from iPhoto; and Spymac Backup is going to back up all my important stuff to it, whenever they iron out the bugs.
Unless of course, you want a faster speed. By my understanding Bluetooth is about 1/10 the speed of wifi (unless I heard wrong.) And that's just 802.11b, not g.
Yes.
Yes I am.
OTOH this guy isn't really reviewing anything... he's just bitching about electronics in general. Had he mentioned a single specific model whose blue lights he didn't like it might be something of a review.... but he just made generalizations like "a USB hub".
That doesn't change the fact that he's getting free stuff. He should stop complaining.
There are 2 possibilities:
1) He's buying all this stuff himself. In which case, he shouldn't complain, because he picked the ones with the blue LED's.
2) He's getting free shit from manufacturers. In which case, he shouldn't complain, because he's getting free shit. One of the other comments mentioned that he should share all his free toys with those of us who don't mind blue LEDs so much. I concur.
Well you could build such an engine off of my friend's engine. The problem, I think, is simply power: there's not enough power to create an outdoor environment with enough detail to create the "illusion of space" you describe. I think the best example I have seen of a game that did that was Smuggler's Run, and early PS2 game. The graphics were pretty amazing, and you could see for miles - it really did look like the great outdoors, and it ran at 60fps. If you've never seen it and are interested in a good-looking, wide-open outdoor environment, I'd recommend renting it or the sequel. (though not having played the sequel, I can't say if it was as good)
I guess it would depend on how the keys work (which I don't claim to be an expert on in any sense) but how possible is it for someone to write a program which adds text to the end of a given string to make it match the given key?
Well it's designed to run any sort of game, and a number of different "plugins" (a C++ class inheriting from an abstract plugin class) allow specialization as the given genre demands. So far using this engine a lot of 2D games have been developed - a working DDR clone (albeit only with keyboard support and crummy graphics), a decent version of Asteroids (vector graphics, scrolling, camera zoom, camera rotation, minimap/radar, running at 60fps or better - Asteroids is the testbed for most of the engine's new toys), a Commander Keen-like platformer (bitmap-based graphics with camera rotation and hundreds of enemies on screen with virtually no slowdown), an ASCII shoot-em-up and a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. There's also a primitive vector-3D game (6-player Pong with 5 computers :)....) using the engine.
The core engine itself mainly contains only a few pieces that are common to most genres: graphics management (which is then passed off to a renderer of your choice), UI element handling, collision detection, and the like.
The engine also has built-in scripting and a console mode (where the game pauses and you can enter commands as if part of a script, which is very cool, and very useful for debugging - stuff like SET_X PLAYER 120... and yes the console can be disabled)
What I want to know - aside from getting a higher quality file (duboius at best) what's the point? It's not like this is legal, you might as well just download the songs anyway. (Unless you have a particularly large legal library or dialup, I suppose)
1) It's not on Freshmeat - it will be in-house.
2) He has $23,000 set away for starting a game company - the plan is to start a game company and have our first game on the market about the time we graduate college. Unrealistic dream? Maybe.
Also, you don't know my friend. He's not only a genius, but actually sticks to what he's creating until it's done... with the exception of when he learns a new trick that makes his program 10% more efficient... but yeah...
My friend is working on a multipurpose game engine, with the ability to "plug in" different graphics managers - so you can have the beauty of DirectX 9 on your Windows version, and seamlessly switch to OpenGL when you port it to Mac OS.
:-(
Or should I say, when I port it to Mac OS, since that's my job. I wish I had the slightest idea how his engine worked... He has all sorts of complicated code that compiles fine on his x86, but is gcc-unfriendly.
I think it actually IS just a program with the extension and icon of an mp3, which happens to send an MP3 to itunes or your default player to make the user think it was a normal mp3.
They could feasably patch for it by, when anything that looks like a file that's not an executable, actually IS, displaying a warning to the user.
Claiming that your system can't be exploited on Slashdot is, really, an exceptionally bad idea.
This is exactly why I believe OSX is so secure. OSX users have bragged countless times about the security of their OS. And what have we gotten? This pathetic excuse of a Trojan?
You ought to share that script.... I wouldn't recommend sharing it on slashdot, but maybe email it to the macosxhints guy.
Meanwhile, watch what mp3s you click on, my friend. ;-)
:-)
For example, a song entitled "virus.mp3" might not be the safest file in the world.
Let's break it down, just for fun....
:)
Insular: an "insular community" is something of an oxymoron, but Mac communities tend to be relatively accepting of people who don't own Macs, as long as they don't hate Macs either. (If you hate Macs what the hell are you doing at that forum anyway?) I never got into any forums of the others, but if real-world experience is anything like the forums, Windows would be the most insular. "Your computer should do this... well here's your solution.... buy a PC..." (And before that gets quoted, they're usually talking about something that takes a few seconds of work, example, Windows networking.)
Conformant: Excuse me? You're thinking Windows. "I don't know what OS to get.... I'll get the one everyone else seems to be getting." Macheads could be seen as conformant to Apple's programs, but only because Apple's programs tend to kick other programs' ass. (Mail.app vs Entourage, Safari vs. IE; the Mozilla equivalents are nearly the same, featurewise, as the Mac versions, only less pretty.) Linux users could be seen as Slashbots.
Intolerant: You know why Macs and Linux aren't more common in the workplace? Because Microsoft's software is closed-standard (AKA "intolerant") - and in many cases, ignorant sysadmins refuse to support other OS's even if it involves little more than flipping a switch.
Whew, that was fun.
Is that from a song or something? I saw a bash quote like that a while back....