.. to see that in the last few years the FCC and FTC has been doing some good to citizens of the US. With this wireless policy, the law that states that property owners cannot prohibit a tenant to install a satellite dish as long as it is within the leased/rented property, the Do Not Call List, and the recent spam bounties, and the heavy charge for that jackson's boob incident. A "boob" like hers should have never been shown on TV. Just nasty...
No. Every single FF game has a different game play situation than the previous one. Some will introduce classes (FFV, FFX-2, FFT), some introduce summons (FFIV and up pretty much), some have no summons or classes (FFVI). Some require equipment to learn spells (FFVI, FFVII), others have you learn them by purchasing items (FFI) or gaining levels (FFIV). Some have special attacks when you get a full meter of some kind (FFVI, Saban; FFVII, FFVIII). They just change radically from each one to the next. Some will even change up the method of battling (Wait vs active) or allow you to change it yourself. If a feature is popular enough (Chocobos, Summons) it will appear in nearly all the games after the next one.
So FFVII: DoC might have a class system, no levels, and require you to purchase spells.
Okay, I get XBox HD (High definition), and XBox 360 (360 degrees), but what does XBox 247 supposed to mean?
It is physically bigger than all the other consoles 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In all seriousness, it probably would be a tie-in with Xbox Live or something. Just saying you can play 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Just remember to eat, drink, shower, and use the toilet.
Since when was being informative a prerequisite for posting to/.? I never was trying to say how great copland was. Plenty of other sites have already done that. And most of the stuff from Copland is already in the Mac OS. Hence the similarity to what MS is going through.
This history that is repeating is that Microsoft is once again copying from Apple. Apple had originally made ambitious plans for Copland, a brand new Mac OS with all the goodies. But it kept getting delayed again and again. So apple scrapped it and took all the neat technologies out of it and released quite a few with the then current release of the Mac OS.
It isn't so much they can't read english.. They can't friggin pronounce it. They are taught all their life to speak 45 syllables or so. When you throw in the weird english ones, it screws their mind up. Or something.
Apple never went bankrupt. And none of those companies did either. They all still exist. Except for maybe Radius. But they died not because their license was revoked but for different reasons. And PowerComputing was bought by Apple.
The continuation of the licenses was going to bankrupt Apple is what I was trying to say.
Except Apple did license the Mac OS to companies. And they nearly went bankrupt because of it. UMAX, Motorola, PowerComputing, Radius. They all had licenses. Apple's share just decreased even more rapidly.
Anyways, IE has to mimic the Netscape behaviour. Which was pretty whacked. Granted, IE did add some HORRIBLE flaws of its own, but most of the way it handles "miscoded" HTML is identical to the way netscape pioneered the mishandling of miscoded HTML.
Is this the basis for the PowerTune technology either used in the 970FX or to be used in it? It supposedly automatically adjusts power consumption and processor speed based on how processor intensive the current operations are.
This seems much different from the current speed stepping technologies as it doesn't scale down to a fixed MHz rating. That is, it isn't always 2.0Ghz during intensive operations and 1.2Ghz for non-intensive operations./got nothing
See, this is precisely the only reason why I am glad Safari uses metal windows. Means any widgets the webpage uses will be apart of the normal aqua theme and not the metal theme.
Also because Safari also uses the OS provided widgets, it is much, much harder to fake because Apple has this silly thing where they redo the interface every major release (and some minor ones).
The #1 reason for the lag (via resizing) is a 2d operation that cannot be accelerated. Also ATSUI (the text system) is incredibly powerful and yet very, very slow.
That is the lagginess you are seeing. Nothing to do with the 3d stuff.
It seems that over the years microsoft has perverted a lot of computing terms and made a lot of them up because they didn't like the fact other companies made them up (see "managed" code meaning basically a garbage collector ).
It seems this has happened to "Release candidate" too. MS's are always extremely buggy so MS apologists have taken "release candidate" to mean what everyone else knows as a beta.
31 schools. 26 techs. And yes, I am telling you mac support was $0 as of the year before they hired all of us. We were the first dedicated techs. Each school has 100-300 computers.
Yes, the school district I worked for paid about $1100 for each dell and maybe $200 for the software on each dell+support. But they also had to hire 26 part time technicians at about 20 grand a year. That is $520,000 a year just to pay the people to support the PCs. When the district was mostly/all macs, no school had a dedicated support technician, the teachers did all the fixing themselves.
The math didn't quite work out. Buy 200 macs for the district per year (rotating replacement schedule), maybe pay $200 more on each mac (not actually the case, they were cheaper up front), and by that math we would be spending $40,000 per year more for the mac hardware vs the $540,000 for dedicated people to support the Dells. Going with the Mac is a savings of half a million dollars. A half a million... Your tax dollars at work.
FWIW, the pay rate is not actually like that any more. They had to increase the hours to full time after the first experimental year. Part time just wasn't enough to support all the PCs at each school every day.
Well, maybe you don't realize this, but Rendezvous basically *is* AppleTalk for TCP/IP. It has all of its benefits, nearly all of its features and it works with normal Routers and TCP/IP hardware.
OpenTalk is the perfect name.
And, FWIW, AppleTalk only has a bad name because the first version (Phase I) had a problem where it would get too chatty. This was fixed in Phase II which was released shortly after Phase II and has been available for over 10 years now. But people's opinion of AppleTalk was already ruined so it basically never recovered.
PS. A recent problem with AppleTalk is that the new Macs that could boot Mac OS 9 are way too fast for common routers. For instance, if the spanning tree protocol is turned on, it is possible for a mac to send a request about AppleTalk and finish booting before it got an answer. This was the origin of the message "Your AppleTalk network is now available" at bootup on a lot of macs.
From limited testing it seems that when a window is marked transparent in windows, it is composited into the display. But otherwise everything is non-compositing. This, in my experience, causes huge problems when fully opaque, non-layered windows are set atop a transparent one. Windows will often draw the old image while dragging the transparent window.
This is especially noticeable if you make a window transparent, then open the Task Manager (always on top) and drag the transparent window around. Very ugly..
And I haven't seen any way to make specific controls on Windows transparent alone or the window transparent alone (and leaving the controls opaque.
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Bite: 5922
My: 69
Shiny: 8590
Daffodil: 27591
Ass: 15036
I am actually quite disappointed that this wasn't from the bite-my-shiny-daffodil-ass dept. Tsk, tsk. Hemos.
Now toss in their 1950's prudish censorship crusade
I was unaware that the 1950s were in "the last few years". Unless we went through a time warp and no one told me... again.
.. to see that in the last few years the FCC and FTC has been doing some good to citizens of the US. With this wireless policy, the law that states that property owners cannot prohibit a tenant to install a satellite dish as long as it is within the leased/rented property, the Do Not Call List, and the recent spam bounties, and the heavy charge for that jackson's boob incident. A "boob" like hers should have never been shown on TV. Just nasty...
No. Every single FF game has a different game play situation than the previous one. Some will introduce classes (FFV, FFX-2, FFT), some introduce summons (FFIV and up pretty much), some have no summons or classes (FFVI). Some require equipment to learn spells (FFVI, FFVII), others have you learn them by purchasing items (FFI) or gaining levels (FFIV). Some have special attacks when you get a full meter of some kind (FFVI, Saban; FFVII, FFVIII). They just change radically from each one to the next. Some will even change up the method of battling (Wait vs active) or allow you to change it yourself. If a feature is popular enough (Chocobos, Summons) it will appear in nearly all the games after the next one.
So FFVII: DoC might have a class system, no levels, and require you to purchase spells.
Okay, I get XBox HD (High definition), and XBox 360 (360 degrees), but what does XBox 247 supposed to mean?
It is physically bigger than all the other consoles 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In all seriousness, it probably would be a tie-in with Xbox Live or something. Just saying you can play 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Just remember to eat, drink, shower, and use the toilet.
Since when was being informative a prerequisite for posting to /.? I never was trying to say how great copland was. Plenty of other sites have already done that. And most of the stuff from Copland is already in the Mac OS. Hence the similarity to what MS is going through.
Not sure about COPELAND but I remember Copland
Remember it so well I even commented on it. Lame moderators only gave me a 3 though. Bastards.
They have removed the various protocols from the listing due to various rumor sites.
The listings did, in fact, say bluetooth and 802.11 just a week ago when i checked it.
This history that is repeating is that Microsoft is once again copying from Apple. Apple had originally made ambitious plans for Copland, a brand new Mac OS with all the goodies. But it kept getting delayed again and again. So apple scrapped it and took all the neat technologies out of it and released quite a few with the then current release of the Mac OS.
It isn't so much they can't read english.. They can't friggin pronounce it. They are taught all their life to speak 45 syllables or so. When you throw in the weird english ones, it screws their mind up. Or something.
Apple never went bankrupt. And none of those companies did either. They all still exist. Except for maybe Radius. But they died not because their license was revoked but for different reasons. And PowerComputing was bought by Apple.
The continuation of the licenses was going to bankrupt Apple is what I was trying to say.
Except Apple did license the Mac OS to companies. And they nearly went bankrupt because of it. UMAX, Motorola, PowerComputing, Radius. They all had licenses. Apple's share just decreased even more rapidly.
No, Netscape was here first. Or did you forget...
Anyways, IE has to mimic the Netscape behaviour. Which was pretty whacked. Granted, IE did add some HORRIBLE flaws of its own, but most of the way it handles "miscoded" HTML is identical to the way netscape pioneered the mishandling of miscoded HTML.
circa-1980's computer? What the hell are you smoking? It's called a mac... do you refer to money as "some parchment with ink on it"?
Is this the basis for the PowerTune technology either used in the 970FX or to be used in it? It supposedly automatically adjusts power consumption and processor speed based on how processor intensive the current operations are.
/got nothing
This seems much different from the current speed stepping technologies as it doesn't scale down to a fixed MHz rating. That is, it isn't always 2.0Ghz during intensive operations and 1.2Ghz for non-intensive operations.
See, this is precisely the only reason why I am glad Safari uses metal windows. Means any widgets the webpage uses will be apart of the normal aqua theme and not the metal theme.
Also because Safari also uses the OS provided widgets, it is much, much harder to fake because Apple has this silly thing where they redo the interface every major release (and some minor ones).
The #1 reason for the lag (via resizing) is a 2d operation that cannot be accelerated. Also ATSUI (the text system) is incredibly powerful and yet very, very slow.
That is the lagginess you are seeing. Nothing to do with the 3d stuff.
OS X seems to have no problem with it. Then again Longhorn's implementation could be completely whacked.
With a name like "Deep Impact", how can you not make uranus jokes?
Too bad I have none. Still laughing at "Deep Impact". Too bad the man believed to be Deep Throat died recently (Today?).
It seems that over the years microsoft has perverted a lot of computing terms and made a lot of them up because they didn't like the fact other companies made them up (see "managed" code meaning basically a garbage collector ).
It seems this has happened to "Release candidate" too. MS's are always extremely buggy so MS apologists have taken "release candidate" to mean what everyone else knows as a beta.
31 schools. 26 techs. And yes, I am telling you mac support was $0 as of the year before they hired all of us. We were the first dedicated techs. Each school has 100-300 computers.
Yes, the school district I worked for paid about $1100 for each dell and maybe $200 for the software on each dell+support. But they also had to hire 26 part time technicians at about 20 grand a year. That is $520,000 a year just to pay the people to support the PCs. When the district was mostly/all macs, no school had a dedicated support technician, the teachers did all the fixing themselves.
The math didn't quite work out. Buy 200 macs for the district per year (rotating replacement schedule), maybe pay $200 more on each mac (not actually the case, they were cheaper up front), and by that math we would be spending $40,000 per year more for the mac hardware vs the $540,000 for dedicated people to support the Dells. Going with the Mac is a savings of half a million dollars. A half a million... Your tax dollars at work.
FWIW, the pay rate is not actually like that any more. They had to increase the hours to full time after the first experimental year. Part time just wasn't enough to support all the PCs at each school every day.
Well, maybe you don't realize this, but Rendezvous basically *is* AppleTalk for TCP/IP. It has all of its benefits, nearly all of its features and it works with normal Routers and TCP/IP hardware.
OpenTalk is the perfect name.
And, FWIW, AppleTalk only has a bad name because the first version (Phase I) had a problem where it would get too chatty. This was fixed in Phase II which was released shortly after Phase II and has been available for over 10 years now. But people's opinion of AppleTalk was already ruined so it basically never recovered.
PS. A recent problem with AppleTalk is that the new Macs that could boot Mac OS 9 are way too fast for common routers. For instance, if the spanning tree protocol is turned on, it is possible for a mac to send a request about AppleTalk and finish booting before it got an answer. This was the origin of the message "Your AppleTalk network is now available" at bootup on a lot of macs.
No, the correct response is, "So it is out... but will it get me laid?"
The answer is, "Depends on if you wrote PHP5 or if you just write with it."
From limited testing it seems that when a window is marked transparent in windows, it is composited into the display. But otherwise everything is non-compositing. This, in my experience, causes huge problems when fully opaque, non-layered windows are set atop a transparent one. Windows will often draw the old image while dragging the transparent window.
This is especially noticeable if you make a window transparent, then open the Task Manager (always on top) and drag the transparent window around. Very ugly..
And I haven't seen any way to make specific controls on Windows transparent alone or the window transparent alone (and leaving the controls opaque.