Well, there are a lot of reports of the GPU being underclocked in OSX to prolong battery life, and I would imagine that a few other things have been scaled back as well. That would affect both the temperature and the battery life. Maybe Apple doesn't want to scale these back in Windows to avoid bad benchmark tests?
I'm running XP in Boot Camp on my Macbook Pro. Battery life is dismal. Heat is outrageous. And if you try to use it like a real laptop, where you close the thing and it suspends, and open it and it resumes, well, you're in for a major disappointment. Half the time the thing goes to sleep, the only way to wake it is by hard rebooting. For some reason, after you shut the thing you hear the USB reconnect sound, and the screen lights up again. While closed. If your commute is very long, you'll arrive home to find a dead laptop battery.
I'm not bitching, I love this thing, and I'm only using XP to run Eve. Unfortunately, that's turned into "most of the time." I'm just suggesting that people remain realistic about Apple's driver support. Their development time is better spent elsewhere.
that my Macbook adapter has a broken cord on it already. You know the little rubber bits that they put on adapters where the cord comes out? Apple decided not to bother with them. Bad idea.
The original power/ibook adapters had horrible issues with this, and the later ones were beefier, and took care of the problem. What do you call it when a company refuses to learn from its own mistakes?
...since developers won't be devoting time to putting together tech demos and other crap for the E3 booths, they'll be able to continue their regular work. A lot of game companies have to drop everything to focus on their E3 presentation.
It'll also be nice for the developers to not have an extra round of Crunch Time just for the marketing department....
or Dreamfall, The Longest Journey. Both are incredibly good adventure games, the graphics are outstanding, the acting is solid, and they're not overly frustrating like some games in the genre can be.
There were moments in D:TLJ where I was told to follow someone through a new area, and I felt like a hobbit, running back and forth and just trying to soak everything in as fast as I could, it was so beautiful. I'll be replaying the game just to re-visit some of the places in it. Great game, check it out if you can.
Twice now I've checked my phone after a beep to find viruses trying to worm their way in. I just keep bluetooth turned off unless I need it now, but still, it's a real and present threat.
11% is an awfully large percentage to be written off as "not news." I run a political blog, and it's all news. Most of the political blogs are, with commentary added by the blogger.
I totally agree. Apple is extremely dense about including decent video chipsets in their machines. It's sad, really, because a lot more people would buy the low-end Macs if they could actually play the games that do get ported over to OSX.
And yes, there are a lot of good games for the Mac, all of your first-tier FPS games get ported, WoW, etc.... but you can't play them (not even Second Life) on the low-end Macs they sell.
Cheap bastards are shooting themselves in the feet.
One more I just remembered from doing phone support for this ISP... It was in rural southern Oregon, and there were a lot of times that I felt like Joel from Northern Exposure... My office was a desk in a garage, and on nice days I'd throw the front and back garage doors open. Looking back, it was a lot better than sitting in a corporate building with 8-foot high windows that don't open.
So anyway, one of my dialup customers kept getting disconnected. It happened all the time, and was getting pretty frustrating for them. Being a really rural aarea, there was a lot of noise on the phone lines, and it was hard to explain this to people. So I'm about halfway through explaining repeater loops and line noise when I hear someone say, "Hello? Anne, is that you?"
"No, it's Jean, I'll be off in just a couple of minutes."
"Ok, thanks."
"Was that your daughter?"
"No, that was Diane from up the street. We're on a party line."
Then there was the guy who called me (at the dialup ISP I worked for) because he'd bought a new computer at Walmart and brought it home and plugged it all in, but it wouldn't power on.
I don't know if you've ever tried to talk someone through this kind of thing over the phone, especially someone for whom these things are brand new, but it can be a very particular brand of nightmare.
So, after about 20 minutes we get through keyboard, plugged into back of case. Mouse, ditto. Monitor cable, in correct spot. Computer, plugged into surge suppressor. Surge suppressor plugged into surge suppressor.
The guy plugged the surge suppressor into itself, and expected it to power the computer.
Andrew Carnegie was not necessary in building and maintaining a poor working class in this country. A country built on slavery doesn't need some wealthy dickweed to teach it how to manage the poor for profit.
Sure, he was good at it, but that doesn't make him the Inventor.
The problem is often bad telecommuters.
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I've been told by many managers that they've tried it, and people just flat-out blow off work when they're home, and productivity drops.
I've had several jobs now where telecommuting wasn't allowed at all, by company policy.
Every once in a while I would have an "emergency," like a repair on the house, or a delivery of furniture, or whatever, and I would tell my boss that I would have to be at home, but that I would still be working. One time it was a Unix admin position, so it could be done from anywhere, especially since many of the servers were colocated or managed. Another time it was doing technical support for java deveopment teams for a major Swiss bank.
So you tell your boss that you can't be in the office anyway, so you'll do some work from home. Then, while you're home, kick ass. Get tons of stuff done. Most people in an office kick back and do the minimum amount of required work, so it isn't hard to show how productive you can be when working from home. Do it off and on, maybe when you're sick, maybe when you have a child emergency, whatever, but if you can come up with a legitimate excuse to be home, take it, and work your ass off.
A lot of times your manager will see that you're a very productive worker, and through some simple tactics you can work out a situation where you can increasingly avoid having to commute. I had an hour and a half train commute each way to the swiss bank gig, so it was worth doing some extra work to be able to sleep an extra hour and a half on occasion, and even if I worked an extra half hour at night, I was still done with work and home an hour earlier.
Hand-made in England exclusively for Formula 1(TM) by specialist composite technicians who make Formula One monocoques, this carbon mouse mat was designed using state of the art automotive 3D modelling software.
3D Modelling software! It must rock!
Imagine how much CAD could help you in designing a flat surface!
Well, I've got the whole media center thing, and I've got all of the NES/SNES content playable, as well as MAME and Intellivision and ColecoVision and just about any other console you can imagine. It's all on my old XBox, and it works flawlessly. DVD player? Yup. Media Center? Yup. DivX/XVid/AVI/MPG/MP4/RM content? Yup.
It's the single greatest device I've ever bought, and Microsoft had nothing to do with its greatness. Hell, they try to prevent it.
This is totally true for Windows, but I've heard tons of stories of defective hardware. Hardware that I wouldn't want to fix myself, I'd want to hand it over to them, and say, "YOU built this piece of crap, YOU fix it."
I wouldn't hack one until like the third generation units come out. Just like I won't run a Window OS until at least the second service pack.
Besides, until there's an XBMC for it, it's not worth hacking,imho.
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but at the same time other outfits are developing similar applications that leave SL in the virtual dust.
Such as?
I'd give you some funny if I had the points....
that just drag and drop files all day?
That must get boring after like 10 minutes. Modern-day file clerk, I guess.
Well, there are a lot of reports of the GPU being underclocked in OSX to prolong battery life, and I would imagine that a few other things have been scaled back as well. That would affect both the temperature and the battery life. Maybe Apple doesn't want to scale these back in Windows to avoid bad benchmark tests?
I'm running XP in Boot Camp on my Macbook Pro. Battery life is dismal. Heat is outrageous. And if you try to use it like a real laptop, where you close the thing and it suspends, and open it and it resumes, well, you're in for a major disappointment. Half the time the thing goes to sleep, the only way to wake it is by hard rebooting. For some reason, after you shut the thing you hear the USB reconnect sound, and the screen lights up again. While closed. If your commute is very long, you'll arrive home to find a dead laptop battery.
I'm not bitching, I love this thing, and I'm only using XP to run Eve. Unfortunately, that's turned into "most of the time." I'm just suggesting that people remain realistic about Apple's driver support. Their development time is better spent elsewhere.
I'm sorry, but did you sleep through the 1990s?
that my Macbook adapter has a broken cord on it already. You know the little rubber bits that they put on adapters where the cord comes out? Apple decided not to bother with them. Bad idea.
The original power/ibook adapters had horrible issues with this, and the later ones were beefier, and took care of the problem. What do you call it when a company refuses to learn from its own mistakes?
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey popped into my head. There was also Shadow of Destiny for the PS2 which seems like it will never have a sequel.
...since developers won't be devoting time to putting together tech demos and other crap for the E3 booths, they'll be able to continue their regular work. A lot of game companies have to drop everything to focus on their E3 presentation.
It'll also be nice for the developers to not have an extra round of Crunch Time just for the marketing department....
or Dreamfall, The Longest Journey. Both are incredibly good adventure games, the graphics are outstanding, the acting is solid, and they're not overly frustrating like some games in the genre can be.
There were moments in D:TLJ where I was told to follow someone through a new area, and I felt like a hobbit, running back and forth and just trying to soak everything in as fast as I could, it was so beautiful. I'll be replaying the game just to re-visit some of the places in it. Great game, check it out if you can.
Twice now I've checked my phone after a beep to find viruses trying to worm their way in. I just keep bluetooth turned off unless I need it now, but still, it's a real and present threat.
11% is an awfully large percentage to be written off as "not news." I run a political blog, and it's all news. Most of the political blogs are, with commentary added by the blogger.
I totally agree. Apple is extremely dense about including decent video chipsets in their machines. It's sad, really, because a lot more people would buy the low-end Macs if they could actually play the games that do get ported over to OSX.
And yes, there are a lot of good games for the Mac, all of your first-tier FPS games get ported, WoW, etc.... but you can't play them (not even Second Life) on the low-end Macs they sell.
Cheap bastards are shooting themselves in the feet.
Oh, man, never heard that one before. I think it's a reference to "bugs!"
HAHAHAHAHA.... You Slashdotters sure do come up with some incredible original material. I bet someone will even make a "Start" button joke!
And wait for it.... wait for it.... YES! a BSOD JOKE!!!!
You guys are regular Carrot Tops. My knee's worn out from slappin' it.
One more I just remembered from doing phone support for this ISP... It was in rural southern Oregon, and there were a lot of times that I felt like Joel from Northern Exposure... My office was a desk in a garage, and on nice days I'd throw the front and back garage doors open. Looking back, it was a lot better than sitting in a corporate building with 8-foot high windows that don't open.
So anyway, one of my dialup customers kept getting disconnected. It happened all the time, and was getting pretty frustrating for them. Being a really rural aarea, there was a lot of noise on the phone lines, and it was hard to explain this to people. So I'm about halfway through explaining repeater loops and line noise when I hear someone say, "Hello? Anne, is that you?"
"No, it's Jean, I'll be off in just a couple of minutes."
"Ok, thanks."
"Was that your daughter?"
"No, that was Diane from up the street. We're on a party line."
Finally, a new one that's actually funny.
Then there was the guy who called me (at the dialup ISP I worked for) because he'd bought a new computer at Walmart and brought it home and plugged it all in, but it wouldn't power on.
I don't know if you've ever tried to talk someone through this kind of thing over the phone, especially someone for whom these things are brand new, but it can be a very particular brand of nightmare.
So, after about 20 minutes we get through keyboard, plugged into back of case. Mouse, ditto. Monitor cable, in correct spot. Computer, plugged into surge suppressor. Surge suppressor plugged into surge suppressor.
The guy plugged the surge suppressor into itself, and expected it to power the computer.
"OK, so does the mouse still move?"
"Yes."
"OK, so it can't be completely frozen. Let's go over to the lab and I'll take a look."
footstep footstep footstep Well, it looks to be completely locked. I thought you said the mouse still moved?"
She grabs the mouse and swings it all over the desk, looking at me like, "SEE?"
"Look, if the computer ever locks up so hard that you can't move the mouse on the desk, RUN."
...the beginning of the Space Age, and Doris Hinglemann's ass boils.
OMG! A financial analyst predicted something! Stop the presses! HE'S A SEER! HE KNOWS THE FUTURE!!!!
Andrew Carnegie was not necessary in building and maintaining a poor working class in this country. A country built on slavery doesn't need some wealthy dickweed to teach it how to manage the poor for profit.
Sure, he was good at it, but that doesn't make him the Inventor.
I've been told by many managers that they've tried it, and people just flat-out blow off work when they're home, and productivity drops.
I've had several jobs now where telecommuting wasn't allowed at all, by company policy.
Every once in a while I would have an "emergency," like a repair on the house, or a delivery of furniture, or whatever, and I would tell my boss that I would have to be at home, but that I would still be working. One time it was a Unix admin position, so it could be done from anywhere, especially since many of the servers were colocated or managed. Another time it was doing technical support for java deveopment teams for a major Swiss bank.
So you tell your boss that you can't be in the office anyway, so you'll do some work from home. Then, while you're home, kick ass. Get tons of stuff done. Most people in an office kick back and do the minimum amount of required work, so it isn't hard to show how productive you can be when working from home. Do it off and on, maybe when you're sick, maybe when you have a child emergency, whatever, but if you can come up with a legitimate excuse to be home, take it, and work your ass off.
A lot of times your manager will see that you're a very productive worker, and through some simple tactics you can work out a situation where you can increasingly avoid having to commute. I had an hour and a half train commute each way to the swiss bank gig, so it was worth doing some extra work to be able to sleep an extra hour and a half on occasion, and even if I worked an extra half hour at night, I was still done with work and home an hour earlier.
They'll be armed with 3mm lasers.
Wow.
Hand-made in England exclusively for Formula 1(TM) by specialist composite technicians who make Formula One monocoques, this carbon mouse mat was designed using state of the art automotive 3D modelling software.
3D Modelling software! It must rock!
Imagine how much CAD could help you in designing a flat surface!
Well, I've got the whole media center thing, and I've got all of the NES/SNES content playable, as well as MAME and Intellivision and ColecoVision and just about any other console you can imagine. It's all on my old XBox, and it works flawlessly. DVD player? Yup. Media Center? Yup. DivX/XVid/AVI/MPG/MP4/RM content? Yup.
It's the single greatest device I've ever bought, and Microsoft had nothing to do with its greatness. Hell, they try to prevent it.
This is totally true for Windows, but I've heard tons of stories of defective hardware. Hardware that I wouldn't want to fix myself, I'd want to hand it over to them, and say, "YOU built this piece of crap, YOU fix it."
I wouldn't hack one until like the third generation units come out. Just like I won't run a Window OS until at least the second service pack.
Besides, until there's an XBMC for it, it's not worth hacking,imho.