I was setting up some woman's new Intel iMac the other day, and I was talking about how most software is still for powerPC and will run under JIT compilation until people build intel binaries (okay, so I think I lost her somewhere:)), and she asked "is intel the thing that makes it run faster?". hehe
She would not have had a clue what was in that thing if I didn't tell her. She still doesn't. It's a "mac".:)
I think the hardcore tech heads who give a sh!t about what is in an Apple machine are only a minority of Apple customers.
I noticed Xbox was listed there, and I will have to agree. But not just because it is big, but because of the buttons! The button layout is awful, and the shape of the buttons hurts my thumb. That, and I can never remember what each button is because they all feel the same. Meh.
Personally, I like the gamecube controller. The big fat A is easy to find and is the button used most anyway.
I started using Delphi at version 5.0 when I worked for a company that developed all client software in Delphi. This was my first major taste at windows application development, and I can tell you, that I *loved* Delphi, even at version 5 and 6. If you claim that it went downhill after 3.0, well it still _rocked_ compared to everything else.
It's really a shame that MS has such dominance over IDE's on windows. I think Visual Studio sucks rocks, it really does. After using Delphi it just seems so inferior it's not funny.
I couldn't give a damn about the Acer travelmate laptop or any of the other windows based Intel Core Duo laptops. As long as they come with windows, they are worthless to me.
You can't directly compare Apple to the other computer manufacturers just because they now use Intel chips. Apple make the operating system and the applications. _That_ is where they are *lightyears* ahead of anybody else. MS is trying desperately to catch up with Vista. Yes I watched the video of Vista at CES and all I can say is *yawn*, I've seen this all before, on OS X Tiger and Panther. Except of course, OS X is classy and doesn't have an interface that resembles a dog's breakfast.
Bottom Line: OS X, iLife, and everything else that constitutes the "Apple Experience" is worth a premium and is far more advanced than anything else available.
Indeed. This country was built on convict labour. The early settlers had convict labourers who were essentially state sanctioned slaves who worked to pay off their sentence. Most of this seemed to happen down in Van Deimans land (Tasmania). Two-time offenders would end up in prisons such as Port Arthur and Sarah Island. A childrens prison was created on an island just off Port Arthur called Point Peur. The children arriving at such a prison were often poor street kids who were sent to Van Deimans land for minor offences such as stealing food, etc.
Interesting that those two prisons at Port Arthur and Sarah Island became very efficient at ship building. Eventually the government shut down ship building operations because private companies could not compete with the low price of convict built ships.
... until I watched Firefly. After watching Firefly, I realised that I didn't really care about any of the characters in BSG. I'm not all that excited about the new episodes of BSG, but if new Firefly episodes were being made I would be counting down the days in anticipation.
I'll still watch BSG, but it's not as good as other sci fi shows in recent history.
Opera for Mac mounts a disk image when I launch it for some reason. Highly annoying. So I don't bother using it. I just use Safari because it's quick and simple.
Games for the GBA currently occupy 6 of the top 10 highest selling titles in Australia. I didn't realise GBA was so damn popular until I found that out. Pokemon seems like a license to print money.
DS doesn't support GBA link cable, which means I can't use it to play Zelda Four Swords:(:( I'm borrowing my friends original GBA with the crappy screen to play it:/
I use LyX to do my word processing. I like not having to fuss (too much) with layout.
But it's still a bit too technical for the average user. If somebody took the concept and turned it into a polished, commercial, end-user product, it might be a good alternative even for non-techies.
Look out Microsoft. New Linux distros are at about the Windows 2000 level of ease of use and catching up quickly.
And since windows XP is a step backwards from win2k, we can assume Linux are as easy to use as the best MS have to offer?
I installed WinXP dual boot with Ubuntu yesterday. When I installed XP, I was dumbfounded that I didn't have networking. It's just a standard realtek network adapter. I hadn't even thought that I might need network drivers.
So after hunting for my Motherboard manufacturers driver disk, all was well. I then had to proceed to turn off all the annoying crap (themes, stupid securty center alerts, other alerts, other crap that pops up and annoys you, stupid big start menu, etc etc).
Damn I hate XP.
Ubuntu wasn't without fault though. I did have to hack/etc/X11/xorg.conf to get a decent refresh rate. I also had to hack grub so I could actually dual boot. But other than that, everything was fine.
Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36 richest countries in 1994:
United States 14.24;
Brazil 12.95;
Mexico 12.69;
Estonia 12.26;
Argentina 8.93;
Northern Ireland 6.63;
Finland 6.46;
Switzerland 5.31;
France 5.15;
Canada 4.31;
Norway 3.82;
Austria 3.70;
Portugal 3.20;
Israel 2.91;
Belgium 2.90; Australia 2.65;
Slovenia 2.60;
Italy 2.44;
New Zealand 2.38;
Denmark 2.09;
Sweden 1.92;
Kuwait 1.84;
Greece 1.29;
Germany 1.24;
Hungary 1.11;
Republic of Ireland 0.97;
Spain 0.78;
Netherlands 0.70;
Scotland 0.54;
England and Wales 0.41;
Taiwan 0.37;
Singapore 0.21;
Mauritius 0.19;
Hong Kong 0.14;
South Korea 0.12;
Japan 0.05.
source
Supposedly from a Centre For Disease Control study conducted in 1998 based on 1994 data. I can't find the actual study on the CDC website, so take with a grain of salt.
OpenOffice.org really needs to hold a pre-2.0 design competition. . The best presentation templates created with OOo 2 beta should be included in the final, with links to the designers webpage.
Why don't they do something similar to what the firefox guys did for the NYT ad? Organise it so say, design company X has agreed to do 10 Impress templates, and 200 clipart items for $30k (whatever). And have people donate until it gets up to that amount. Then they can have professionally designed artwork/templates ready to go in 2.0 final (or shortly thereafter).
The issue with abortion is that by disallowing it, you are putting the rights of an unborn child above the rights of the mother. She is no longer in control over her own body.
When the state can force a ceasarian section to save an unborn baby (for example), this is a problem. It should ultimately be the womans choice as to what she wants to do with her own body. Similarly, it should be the womans choice whether she wants to have the baby at all - while it is inside her, it is part of her body.
Not that I necessarily agree with abortion. I just disagree with the state disallowing it. If my girlfriend got pregnant, and wanted an abortion, I would do everything I could to change her mind.
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I'm not laughing at you, I understand completely. Christmas and the total consumerist explosion that happens at that time is really a sad reflection on modern western societies.
Sure there are some good things where people give to charities, etc.
But a lot of people just buy so much "stuff" for their children, it's ridiculous. What do they need all that stuff for?
What about the cost (not monetary, but in raw materials taken from the earth, greenhouse gas emissions, etc) of those items?
I think we should be teaching kids that "things" don't bring happiness, but they can derive happiness from other activities and from people, etc...
I understand what you mean. Whenever I use a Mac, I enjoy using it. It is a pleasant experience for some reason. I like looking at them, I enjoy using them.
Anyone with some sort of degree in psychology/human interfaces want to tell me why? I'd like to know.
Here are some reasons I don't like windows:
Windows is just too dull and corporate. WinXP annoys you all the time with stupid patronizing little yellow bubbles in the system tray. The default theme is god awful. Windows apps use their own widgets all the time and never seem to comform to any kind of standard user experience, which tends to slow me down because I have to make sense of what I'm looking at, rather than just looking at something familiar I can just use.
Third party windows apps also tend to suck. If you want a tool to do X, you hunt around for various crappy shareware apps that annoy you and want $10 to do something basic, horribly. And their interfaces almost always suck....
Linux annoys me a lot as well, lately. But it has the community and the warm-fuzzy feeling that brings when using somebody's app they've crafted because the enjoy it, not because they were paid to do it. That counts for something, even if the user experience is all over the place and sometimes frustrating (e.g. getting a piece of hardware to work).
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I was setting up some woman's new Intel iMac the other day, and I was talking about how most software is still for powerPC and will run under JIT compilation until people build intel binaries (okay, so I think I lost her somewhere :)), and she asked "is intel the thing that makes it run faster?". hehe
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She would not have had a clue what was in that thing if I didn't tell her. She still doesn't. It's a "mac".
I think the hardcore tech heads who give a sh!t about what is in an Apple machine are only a minority of Apple customers.
I noticed Xbox was listed there, and I will have to agree. But not just because it is big, but because of the buttons! The button layout is awful, and the shape of the buttons hurts my thumb. That, and I can never remember what each button is because they all feel the same. Meh.
Personally, I like the gamecube controller. The big fat A is easy to find and is the button used most anyway.
I started using Delphi at version 5.0 when I worked for a company that developed all client software in Delphi. This was my first major taste at windows application development, and I can tell you, that I *loved* Delphi, even at version 5 and 6. If you claim that it went downhill after 3.0, well it still _rocked_ compared to everything else.
It's really a shame that MS has such dominance over IDE's on windows. I think Visual Studio sucks rocks, it really does. After using Delphi it just seems so inferior it's not funny.
I couldn't give a damn about the Acer travelmate laptop or any of the other windows based Intel Core Duo laptops. As long as they come with windows, they are worthless to me.
You can't directly compare Apple to the other computer manufacturers just because they now use Intel chips. Apple make the operating system and the applications. _That_ is where they are *lightyears* ahead of anybody else. MS is trying desperately to catch up with Vista. Yes I watched the video of Vista at CES and all I can say is *yawn*, I've seen this all before, on OS X Tiger and Panther. Except of course, OS X is classy and doesn't have an interface that resembles a dog's breakfast.
Bottom Line: OS X, iLife, and everything else that constitutes the "Apple Experience" is worth a premium and is far more advanced than anything else available.
Dr. Zoidberg: Now open your mouth and let me look at that brain.
Dr. Zoidberg: No the other mouth.
Fry: I only have one.
Dr. Zoidberg: Really?
Indeed. This country was built on convict labour. The early settlers had convict labourers who were essentially state sanctioned slaves who worked to pay off their sentence. Most of this seemed to happen down in Van Deimans land (Tasmania). Two-time offenders would end up in prisons such as Port Arthur and Sarah Island. A childrens prison was created on an island just off Port Arthur called Point Peur. The children arriving at such a prison were often poor street kids who were sent to Van Deimans land for minor offences such as stealing food, etc.
Interesting that those two prisons at Port Arthur and Sarah Island became very efficient at ship building. Eventually the government shut down ship building operations because private companies could not compete with the low price of convict built ships.
... until I watched Firefly. After watching Firefly, I realised that I didn't really care about any of the characters in BSG. I'm not all that excited about the new episodes of BSG, but if new Firefly episodes were being made I would be counting down the days in anticipation.
I'll still watch BSG, but it's not as good as other sci fi shows in recent history.
BENDER:
I wanna know what would happen if I were human. I mean, being a robot's great but we don't have emotions and sometimes that makes me very sad.
Opera for Mac mounts a disk image when I launch it for some reason. Highly annoying. So I don't bother using it. I just use Safari because it's quick and simple.
Mine:
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1. Marine Missions in Alien vs Predator 1 and 2
2. Doom 3 (yeah it still scared the crap out of me, so what?)
Never played System Shock 1 or 2, but I wish I did.
Shuffle (512MB or 1024MB)
Nano (2GB or 4GB)
Normal (20GB or 60GB)
3 types, 2 size choices for each, with a nice $50 price difference for each model.
I think Apple are really good when it comes to coming up with a product lineup. It's other suppliers that are too confusing.
Games for the GBA currently occupy 6 of the top 10 highest selling titles in Australia. I didn't realise GBA was so damn popular until I found that out. Pokemon seems like a license to print money.
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DS doesn't support GBA link cable, which means I can't use it to play Zelda Four Swords :( :( I'm borrowing my friends original GBA with the crappy screen to play it :/
I use LyX to do my word processing. I like not having to fuss (too much) with layout.
But it's still a bit too technical for the average user. If somebody took the concept and turned it into a polished, commercial, end-user product, it might be a good alternative even for non-techies.
I installed WinXP dual boot with Ubuntu yesterday. When I installed XP, I was dumbfounded that I didn't have networking. It's just a standard realtek network adapter. I hadn't even thought that I might need network drivers.
So after hunting for my Motherboard manufacturers driver disk, all was well. I then had to proceed to turn off all the annoying crap (themes, stupid securty center alerts, other alerts, other crap that pops up and annoys you, stupid big start menu, etc etc).
Damn I hate XP.
Ubuntu wasn't without fault though. I did have to hack
Murder Rate Per Capita (link).
The United States has 4 times as many intentional murders per 1000 people as Australia.
Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36 richest countries in 1994:
United States 14.24;
Brazil 12.95;
Mexico 12.69;
Estonia 12.26;
Argentina 8.93;
Northern Ireland 6.63;
Finland 6.46;
Switzerland 5.31;
France 5.15;
Canada 4.31;
Norway 3.82;
Austria 3.70;
Portugal 3.20;
Israel 2.91;
Belgium 2.90;
Australia 2.65;
Slovenia 2.60;
Italy 2.44;
New Zealand 2.38;
Denmark 2.09;
Sweden 1.92;
Kuwait 1.84;
Greece 1.29;
Germany 1.24;
Hungary 1.11;
Republic of Ireland 0.97;
Spain 0.78;
Netherlands 0.70;
Scotland 0.54;
England and Wales 0.41;
Taiwan 0.37;
Singapore 0.21;
Mauritius 0.19;
Hong Kong 0.14;
South Korea 0.12;
Japan 0.05.
source
Supposedly from a Centre For Disease Control study conducted in 1998 based on 1994 data. I can't find the actual study on the CDC website, so take with a grain of salt.
The issue with abortion is that by disallowing it, you are putting the rights of an unborn child above the rights of the mother. She is no longer in control over her own body.
When the state can force a ceasarian section to save an unborn baby (for example), this is a problem. It should ultimately be the womans choice as to what she wants to do with her own body. Similarly, it should be the womans choice whether she wants to have the baby at all - while it is inside her, it is part of her body.
Not that I necessarily agree with abortion. I just disagree with the state disallowing it. If my girlfriend got pregnant, and wanted an abortion, I would do everything I could to change her mind.
2000 posts pointing out how this is a dupe. :/
This is why I love idsoftware. Now we'll see some cool stuff done with the quake III engine, like with Doom Legacy, quakeforge, etc etc.
:)
Yay
I wish I had mod points...
I'm not laughing at you, I understand completely. Christmas and the total consumerist explosion that happens at that time is really a sad reflection on modern western societies.
Sure there are some good things where people give to charities, etc.
But a lot of people just buy so much "stuff" for their children, it's ridiculous. What do they need all that stuff for?
What about the cost (not monetary, but in raw materials taken from the earth, greenhouse gas emissions, etc) of those items?
I think we should be teaching kids that "things" don't bring happiness, but they can derive happiness from other activities and from people, etc...
At the risk of sounding like an AOL using "Me too!" poster, I just want to say that I agree with you over the GNOME icons being dull, dull, dull.
I really wish they would fix them, I hate the default icon theme in GNOME. It just pulls the whole desktop down.
I understand what you mean. Whenever I use a Mac, I enjoy using it. It is a pleasant experience for some reason. I like looking at them, I enjoy using them.
Anyone with some sort of degree in psychology/human interfaces want to tell me why? I'd like to know.
Here are some reasons I don't like windows:
Windows is just too dull and corporate. WinXP annoys you all the time with stupid patronizing little yellow bubbles in the system tray. The default theme is god awful. Windows apps use their own widgets all the time and never seem to comform to any kind of standard user experience, which tends to slow me down because I have to make sense of what I'm looking at, rather than just looking at something familiar I can just use.
Third party windows apps also tend to suck. If you want a tool to do X, you hunt around for various crappy shareware apps that annoy you and want $10 to do something basic, horribly. And their interfaces almost always suck....
Linux annoys me a lot as well, lately. But it has the community and the warm-fuzzy feeling that brings when using somebody's app they've crafted because the enjoy it, not because they were paid to do it. That counts for something, even if the user experience is all over the place and sometimes frustrating (e.g. getting a piece of hardware to work).