Look at the quality of the launch titles compared to the titles now for the PS2. The PS2 is harder to program for because of its silly vectorization, and some other things. Just go to any homebrew'ing tutorial, it'll explain it nice and slowly so you can understand.
Managing a community is not BZFlag's problem. BZFlag can't issue a patch that bans people who use modified content, because the program is open source and over the internet. If for example, md5sum checks of files is done and then sent to the server, someone could just modify the source to pretend it got the right sums. Trivial. On the internet, there is no central server that you can ban people from. Sure, you can use your approach, but thats a different subject, and almost completly irrelevant to the BZFlag code.
You do realize that you can install linux on the mac mini, and I'm sure PPC has better support than ARM, or you can just use fink (like bsd ports) to install *nix apps under OSX? Not to mention the mac mini is much more powerfull....
Who wants/Applications,/System,/Users etc. CAPS!!! yes CAPS!!! in a UNIX OS! Evil. Not to mention some dirs have spaces *gasp* very annoying at the command line.
Also, of course, Finder. What the fuck is up with the Finder? It's like they're obeying some law, OSX can be only so good, so lets cripple the FileManager. Honestly, wtf? A button to switch between metal/non-metal look? What genius thought that up? Normally Apple is so good with GUI stuff. Open/Save dialogs are a part of Finder, and they suck too. No "up" button. Urgh. No address bar. Only cool thing about finder is the pretty icons and the multi-rowed browsing.
Well, considering that ctrl+click is so important in osx, and so many third party mice use two buttons, the battle is lost. The only reason I stick with a one button mouse is because their wireless ones are pretty looking, and have a funky cool design (the whole mouse being a button)
I switched from gentoo to OSX, and I'm liking most of apple's changes, like dock instead of multidesktop (it works better, even if it isn't as cool), etc etc, but the one button mouse is a pain. I hate having to ctrl+click everything. Alas, I must use Apple's wireless mouse, because it's beautiful. Third party ones don't compare. If Apple can design a mouse as cool as the one button mouse, then I will buy it in a heartbeat (If you know how the one button mouse works, you know what I mean, its neato)
Automakers didn't make the segaway, and the segway wasn't made as a replacment for cars, and no one buys them. If you were trying to be funny, don't quit your day job to become a comedian.
Huh? Are you an idiot? They would need to have cracked wifi for the psp to emulate a ds's wifi, and the emulator would need to support DS wifi, which it doesnt, hence the bounty. Also, the emulators are shit, they don't run any games, and only a few demo's.
I wish I could go back in time, get a guy like this, sit him down in front of my apple computer, hooked up to a 23" moniter, wireless keyboard and mouse, show him all the drop shadows in osx, open and save some files, and reopen them, to show him it remembered what I wrote. Play some FPS online and call people n00b's over the microphone, load up some solar system simulator, draw a picture in gimp, print it on my photoprinter/copier/scanner, and then let him play with it. Show him instant messaging, then open Firefox and show him the web (not goatse, we need to go slowly, lets say wikipedia)
After that, I would open up the mac mini, and let him wonder where everthing is stored, how the little hunk of plastic and metal can make that tv its hooked up to do all those things.
Then, I would take him to the hospital for his heartattack.
You were a kid once, or maybe still are. Did you have trouble telling the difference between reality and fantasy? I bet not. Cut the crap, kids don't get influenced by GTA, just because you can pick up hookers and shoot them, doesn't make it right in any kids mind. When people grow up I think they forget what it's like to be a kid, and just pretend that kids are alot dumber than they really are (maybe to combat the fact that alot of kids end up smarter than their parents, and their parents get diseases like alzheimers. "He may think he's smarter than us, but he doesn't have enough experience to know he isn't" or some crap)
If someone can honestly sit down, play GTA, and say "hey, i just killed a hooker. I think I'll go do that sans ps2 controller, outside, because I know that video games are just as real as outside, weeeeeeeee", then that person is a ticking timebomb anyway, and if it wasn't video games, it would be tv, or movies, or books, some other form of media, or, all else failing, they would hallucinate their own diversions.
"In a recent article, John Dvorak trashes [himself] as being, 'one of the dumbest [people] to ever put forth [an opinion about] the tech community. I mean seriously dumb. Eye-rolling dumb on the same scale as believing the Emperor is wearing fabulous new clothes.'
Yes, I TOTALLY agree. We need a ratings board that has a secret team of ninja's, that hunt down and kill anyone buying a game rated higher than their age (or buying it for a minor.) That's the problem with society today: we have to much freedom. What happened to good old soviet communisim? Jeez.
Honestly, the ESRB does what it's meant to do, and does it well. They warn people of what content is in a game. It's the parent's responsibility, and if they want to succum to their childrens pressure, then maybe someoen should call childrens aid. Not the ESRB's problem.
The whole rumour on the shift to intel had how many stories
It was a rumour for about 1 or 2 stories, before it was confirmed. So, the Intel move isn't a rumour. Furthermore this ipod video stuff has real evidence if you RTFA.
Alas, I agree with you on everything else. I'm using a mac mini right now, when I first got it I was happy/. had so many Apple stories, until I realized most were boring. Slashdot is cool the way it is, even with the dupes (hey, sometimes I miss things the first time around. ex there was an interesting article about 'how to use a computer' circa 1970's awhile ago, which was a dupe from before I arrived here. All original to me) and just regurgettating news is fine, because then it's all in one tiny place for lazy me to check. Also, I get to post on slashdots *wonderful* forums! And shit, get modded completly offtopic.. damn.
OSX on ARM? Funny. You really don't know what your talking about do you? ARM is nice for their ipods, but not their powermacs (I just assume the ipod uses arm) Unless you spend all your time coding in asm (and I hope you wouldn't, modern c/c++ compilers can do better asm then humans anyway) then you shouldn't care about which architecture your using. PPC may sound better in docs, and may be a cleaner arch compared to old x86, but I'm sorry, compare the G5 to your amd64 (yes I know theyre not using amd, but intel's been slack with their 64bit, and the amd chip is still an x86_64 chip so all is well) in terms of power consumption, heat and performance. Or the G4 vs Pentium M for the same reasons. Sure, PPC may be a cooler arch, but unless you plan on living in a dreamworld, x86 beats out ppc.
Sure you can run Linux or *bsd on your intel machine, but you can on a ppc machine too. That's not the point of having an apple computer. The x86 darwin port is not the same as the OSX x86 port.
Oh god, yes. We don't already have enough variety and split efforts, lets make more divisions, that spurs innovation and is the key to winning the desktop, providing Average Joe with 50000 file managers. Honestly, why do you think KDE/Gnome exist? They are window managers. They are meant to be a package which allows you to have a desktop on the X11 server. The more you abstract, the closer you get to KDE turning into blackbox (blackbox is cool, but thats not the point of kde.)
Alright, since you know what your talking about, I nominate you to go write a window manager in assembly code. God knows you can write better assembler than a compiler.*
Honestly, have you ever written a Qt/KDE app? It's a breeze! OO makes everything make sense, and even though in most cases its overused, for UI its perfect. I don't know what barrier your talking about.
*Uh well gcc does kind of suck, so you've got a chance...
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Dolt, virtualpc for mac is an x86 emulator, on x86 virtualpc is a "virtual pc"
Look at the quality of the launch titles compared to the titles now for the PS2. The PS2 is harder to program for because of its silly vectorization, and some other things. Just go to any homebrew'ing tutorial, it'll explain it nice and slowly so you can understand.
Managing a community is not BZFlag's problem. BZFlag can't issue a patch that bans people who use modified content, because the program is open source and over the internet. If for example, md5sum checks of files is done and then sent to the server, someone could just modify the source to pretend it got the right sums. Trivial. On the internet, there is no central server that you can ban people from. Sure, you can use your approach, but thats a different subject, and almost completly irrelevant to the BZFlag code.
BZFlag is also open source, and more popular than HaloPC.
Bungie has the advantage of being on xbox live, a controlled service. PC games with internet play have it much tougher.
You do realize that you can install linux on the mac mini, and I'm sure PPC has better support than ARM, or you can just use fink (like bsd ports) to install *nix apps under OSX? Not to mention the mac mini is much more powerfull....
Who wants /Applications, /System, /Users etc. CAPS!!! yes CAPS!!! in a UNIX OS! Evil. Not to mention some dirs have spaces *gasp* very annoying at the command line.
Also, of course, Finder. What the fuck is up with the Finder? It's like they're obeying some law, OSX can be only so good, so lets cripple the FileManager. Honestly, wtf? A button to switch between metal/non-metal look? What genius thought that up? Normally Apple is so good with GUI stuff. Open/Save dialogs are a part of Finder, and they suck too. No "up" button. Urgh. No address bar. Only cool thing about finder is the pretty icons and the multi-rowed browsing.
Well, considering that ctrl+click is so important in osx, and so many third party mice use two buttons, the battle is lost. The only reason I stick with a one button mouse is because their wireless ones are pretty looking, and have a funky cool design (the whole mouse being a button)
Apple's current mouse is way cooler than 3rd party mice. Cool enough to trade in functionality for looks. Unfortunantly.
I switched from gentoo to OSX, and I'm liking most of apple's changes, like dock instead of multidesktop (it works better, even if it isn't as cool), etc etc, but the one button mouse is a pain. I hate having to ctrl+click everything. Alas, I must use Apple's wireless mouse, because it's beautiful. Third party ones don't compare. If Apple can design a mouse as cool as the one button mouse, then I will buy it in a heartbeat (If you know how the one button mouse works, you know what I mean, its neato)
Automakers didn't make the segaway, and the segway wasn't made as a replacment for cars, and no one buys them. If you were trying to be funny, don't quit your day job to become a comedian.
Huh? Are you an idiot? They would need to have cracked wifi for the psp to emulate a ds's wifi, and the emulator would need to support DS wifi, which it doesnt, hence the bounty. Also, the emulators are shit, they don't run any games, and only a few demo's.
I wish I could go back in time, get a guy like this, sit him down in front of my apple computer, hooked up to a 23" moniter, wireless keyboard and mouse, show him all the drop shadows in osx, open and save some files, and reopen them, to show him it remembered what I wrote. Play some FPS online and call people n00b's over the microphone, load up some solar system simulator, draw a picture in gimp, print it on my photoprinter/copier/scanner, and then let him play with it. Show him instant messaging, then open Firefox and show him the web (not goatse, we need to go slowly, lets say wikipedia)
After that, I would open up the mac mini, and let him wonder where everthing is stored, how the little hunk of plastic and metal can make that tv its hooked up to do all those things.
Then, I would take him to the hospital for his heartattack.
The lack of spending in windows [security/stability/logo's and icons/etc] R&D
Zing!
You were a kid once, or maybe still are. Did you have trouble telling the difference between reality and fantasy? I bet not. Cut the crap, kids don't get influenced by GTA, just because you can pick up hookers and shoot them, doesn't make it right in any kids mind. When people grow up I think they forget what it's like to be a kid, and just pretend that kids are alot dumber than they really are (maybe to combat the fact that alot of kids end up smarter than their parents, and their parents get diseases like alzheimers. "He may think he's smarter than us, but he doesn't have enough experience to know he isn't" or some crap)
If someone can honestly sit down, play GTA, and say "hey, i just killed a hooker. I think I'll go do that sans ps2 controller, outside, because I know that video games are just as real as outside, weeeeeeeee", then that person is a ticking timebomb anyway, and if it wasn't video games, it would be tv, or movies, or books, some other form of media, or, all else failing, they would hallucinate their own diversions.
"In a recent article, John Dvorak trashes [himself] as being, 'one of the dumbest [people] to ever put forth [an opinion about] the tech community. I mean seriously dumb. Eye-rolling dumb on the same scale as believing the Emperor is wearing fabulous new clothes.'
Yes, I TOTALLY agree. We need a ratings board that has a secret team of ninja's, that hunt down and kill anyone buying a game rated higher than their age (or buying it for a minor.) That's the problem with society today: we have to much freedom. What happened to good old soviet communisim? Jeez.
Honestly, the ESRB does what it's meant to do, and does it well. They warn people of what content is in a game. It's the parent's responsibility, and if they want to succum to their childrens pressure, then maybe someoen should call childrens aid. Not the ESRB's problem.
The whole rumour on the shift to intel had how many stories
/. had so many Apple stories, until I realized most were boring. Slashdot is cool the way it is, even with the dupes (hey, sometimes I miss things the first time around. ex there was an interesting article about 'how to use a computer' circa 1970's awhile ago, which was a dupe from before I arrived here. All original to me) and just regurgettating news is fine, because then it's all in one tiny place for lazy me to check. Also, I get to post on slashdots *wonderful* forums! And shit, get modded completly offtopic.. damn.
It was a rumour for about 1 or 2 stories, before it was confirmed. So, the Intel move isn't a rumour. Furthermore this ipod video stuff has real evidence if you RTFA.
Alas, I agree with you on everything else. I'm using a mac mini right now, when I first got it I was happy
OSX on ARM? Funny. You really don't know what your talking about do you? ARM is nice for their ipods, but not their powermacs (I just assume the ipod uses arm) Unless you spend all your time coding in asm (and I hope you wouldn't, modern c/c++ compilers can do better asm then humans anyway) then you shouldn't care about which architecture your using. PPC may sound better in docs, and may be a cleaner arch compared to old x86, but I'm sorry, compare the G5 to your amd64 (yes I know theyre not using amd, but intel's been slack with their 64bit, and the amd chip is still an x86_64 chip so all is well) in terms of power consumption, heat and performance. Or the G4 vs Pentium M for the same reasons. Sure, PPC may be a cooler arch, but unless you plan on living in a dreamworld, x86 beats out ppc.
Sure you can run Linux or *bsd on your intel machine, but you can on a ppc machine too. That's not the point of having an apple computer. The x86 darwin port is not the same as the OSX x86 port.
lol, were posting in a story about kde, which implies desktop, which excludes freebsd. freebsd is dead.
hehe just joking around, lighten up mods.
Oh god, yes. We don't already have enough variety and split efforts, lets make more divisions, that spurs innovation and is the key to winning the desktop, providing Average Joe with 50000 file managers. Honestly, why do you think KDE/Gnome exist? They are window managers. They are meant to be a package which allows you to have a desktop on the X11 server. The more you abstract, the closer you get to KDE turning into blackbox (blackbox is cool, but thats not the point of kde.)
Alright, since you know what your talking about, I nominate you to go write a window manager in assembly code. God knows you can write better assembler than a compiler.*
Honestly, have you ever written a Qt/KDE app? It's a breeze! OO makes everything make sense, and even though in most cases its overused, for UI its perfect. I don't know what barrier your talking about.
*Uh well gcc does kind of suck, so you've got a chance...
Except... gnome is still bloated. Obviously these guys like KDE, they just want a lite version. What good is gnome to them? I call troll.
gentoo and portage.
osx already runs on x86, has for years.