Actually, that's not a bad idea. Bonjour gives you the freedom to network without having to wrestle an operating system to the ground and forcing it to say uncle.
It's like comparing the penetration of broadband in Asian countries where everyone lives in the same three square mile urban singularity with the far more spread out USA.
I'm seeing fewer and fewer games I want to play, and the ones I do choose tend to be just well done versions of existing genres (Sly Cooper 2 for platforming, God Of War for a hack & slash, etc). The only one I'm looking forward to at the moment is FF12 because it's supposed to have a more tactical battle system.
But whose fault is it? Look at the top ten games at any time. [Insert sport here] 2005, car racing and shooters. It's what the market wants.
On the computer side I downloaded a few games by independnet developers. Eh... nice codework, but they were still basically rehashes.
Someone is going to have to finally develop a good VR helmet display system. I'd be interested in some sort of online VR gaming I could play at home. Not looking for magical Matrix-like inversion, but a purely visual system shouldn't be impossible.
Defense industry R&D hardware. You'll always be pushing a bleeding edge somewhere (I commonly have to sign NDAs with chip suppliers to get a hold of engineering model parts of product lines not on the market yet), and you'll never get outsourced (the customers once got concerned because we used a small driver written at a Canadian university.)
The downside is that you can never publish any papers because of classified details. The customers are also far less free spending than they are with the big ticket programs, but they know they have to push the envelope.
Oh, and they come ask your neighbors questions about you every few years, but that's actually kind of cool because for all the neighbors know you could be doing a job like Jack Bauer on "24".:)
Amidahla, who in Ep 1 was "queen", talking in Ep 2 about how wonderful democracy is.
OK, all together now: "...a galaxy far, far away."
Naboo != Earth, so they can elect queens if they want to. It's easy to imagine an ancient royal line that bloodlessly gave way to free elections, but they kept the traditional names.
It's kind of like nitpickers of the new Battlestar Galacitca complaining that the crew doesn't follow U.S military traditions. Huh?!
Try booting in a corporate environment that runs a massive startup script, and has "no unauthorized users" and "fill in your timecard daily" dialogs popup that have to be manually dismissed so you can't turn on the PC and wander down to the cafeteria while it limps toward what passes for usability.
Feel free to use the analogy. I get so tired of the automotive ones.
I find the interfaces to be better under Mac OS. In particular, I use both the Windows and Mac versions of Photoshop on a regular basis, and the Windows version is just... clunky. It could just be me, but I have always despised the MDI approach to interfaces. Even with the base window fully expanded, I feel trapped in a box. Give me freeform windows floating where I want them to. Add Expose to this, and it's so easy to jump around different windows and different programs.
There's just a plethora of little reasons too numerous list here.
Make the jump. I use Windows and Mac OS X every single day, so I have a good sense of comparison.
The Mac is like sitting a pleasant garden. There's a bug here and there, and maybe the landscaping could be tweaked, but it smells nice and is a relaxing place to work.
Windows is a noisy junkyard. There's many layers of trash, and the owners keep piling on new layers of crap on top of the rickety lower levels. You can get work done, but you hate every second of it.
I switched on a business show on Fox News just deal with it, OK? They have decent business shows.) over the weekend, and the announcer, in his "what's coming up next" blurb, excitedly said, "you'll be able to watch television on your cell phone soon!" And all I can think about is how intercell handoffs still vastly suck even here in 2005 A.D, half my cell calls sound like they are from a deep sea submersible and how there's still dead zones even in metropolitan Los Angeles.
Why am I supposed to be excited about this? Where's the truly NEW stuff? Say what you will about Tivo, but that was a device that fundamentally changed the way I do things in terms of entertainment. I actually watch less TV more efficiently because of it. I want things that make my life easier, not flashy gadgets that are created simply for the gee-whiz factor.
Maybe I've seen too much. Maybe it's because I design stuff so far beyond things like this that I'm difficult to impress. I dunno... just getting old and pragmatic, perhaps.
A lot of these problems sound either outdated or FUDdy. I've had three TVs that have V-chips and none of them had internal batteries. Googling a V-chip backdoor produced nothing solid.
That one bugs me, too. It's like the TVs with password protected V-chips. Everyone always says, "oh, the kids will just hack it!"
Hack what? A TV? They either have the password or they don't. They're going to sit there and try every combination with a remote control? Even with the Tivo's paltry 4 digit code, that's a long time poking at buttons.
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Is there a FAQ on that somewhere?
Actually, that's not a bad idea. Bonjour gives you the freedom to network without having to wrestle an operating system to the ground and forcing it to say uncle.
An "HP Mac" would be an interesting concept.
I dunno... HP "anything" has ceased to be an interesting concept under any circumstances.
Yes, I'm still bitter about them gutting the RPN calculator group.
It's like comparing the penetration of broadband in Asian countries where everyone lives in the same three square mile urban singularity with the far more spread out USA.
You need fins, man!
That comment, in the words of Spider Jerusalem, really makes me need to shoot something.
Will fancy light sabers be referred to as "bling" next?
You'd NEVER make heads or tails of it.
***SOME*** math?
Um, no thank you. What if the preparer is angry at the world that day?
Or horny?
if you can't test it, then it doesn't belong in science.
Have you not just kicked all of string theory out of the Science dorm? ;-)
"Bloody zoos!" - Rick on The Young Ones
Some of you people need to get out more. You attach the winch's hook and cable around the nearest tree, and then- oh, wait a minute...
I told them not to cut the winch out of the design! But do they listen? Nooooooooooo, they don't!
But whose fault is it? Look at the top ten games at any time. [Insert sport here] 2005, car racing and shooters. It's what the market wants.
On the computer side I downloaded a few games by independnet developers. Eh... nice codework, but they were still basically rehashes.
Someone is going to have to finally develop a good VR helmet display system. I'd be interested in some sort of online VR gaming I could play at home. Not looking for magical Matrix-like inversion, but a purely visual system shouldn't be impossible.
The downside is that you can never publish any papers because of classified details. The customers are also far less free spending than they are with the big ticket programs, but they know they have to push the envelope.
Oh, and they come ask your neighbors questions about you every few years, but that's actually kind of cool because for all the neighbors know you could be doing a job like Jack Bauer on "24". :)
OK, all together now: "...a galaxy far, far away."
Naboo != Earth, so they can elect queens if they want to. It's easy to imagine an ancient royal line that bloodlessly gave way to free elections, but they kept the traditional names.
It's kind of like nitpickers of the new Battlestar Galacitca complaining that the crew doesn't follow U.S military traditions. Huh?!
Agree on everything else, though.
Feel free to use the analogy. I get so tired of the automotive ones.
I'm sorry, but you're allowed a maximum of three names ba Canadian law. He'll have to drop one.
There's just a plethora of little reasons too numerous list here.
The Mac is like sitting a pleasant garden. There's a bug here and there, and maybe the landscaping could be tweaked, but it smells nice and is a relaxing place to work.
Windows is a noisy junkyard. There's many layers of trash, and the owners keep piling on new layers of crap on top of the rickety lower levels. You can get work done, but you hate every second of it.
*cough*fusionpower*cough* The eternally "just around the corner" technology.
Hey, I tease mankind. :)
I dunno... if they do that I might have to issue a fatwa against them. Bringing back that tool to the airwaves is total jihad time.
I switched on a business show on Fox News just deal with it, OK? They have decent business shows.) over the weekend, and the announcer, in his "what's coming up next" blurb, excitedly said, "you'll be able to watch television on your cell phone soon!" And all I can think about is how intercell handoffs still vastly suck even here in 2005 A.D, half my cell calls sound like they are from a deep sea submersible and how there's still dead zones even in metropolitan Los Angeles.
Why am I supposed to be excited about this? Where's the truly NEW stuff? Say what you will about Tivo, but that was a device that fundamentally changed the way I do things in terms of entertainment. I actually watch less TV more efficiently because of it. I want things that make my life easier, not flashy gadgets that are created simply for the gee-whiz factor.
Maybe I've seen too much. Maybe it's because I design stuff so far beyond things like this that I'm difficult to impress. I dunno... just getting old and pragmatic, perhaps.
A lot of these problems sound either outdated or FUDdy. I've had three TVs that have V-chips and none of them had internal batteries. Googling a V-chip backdoor produced nothing solid.
That one bugs me, too. It's like the TVs with password protected V-chips. Everyone always says, "oh, the kids will just hack it!"
Hack what? A TV? They either have the password or they don't. They're going to sit there and try every combination with a remote control? Even with the Tivo's paltry 4 digit code, that's a long time poking at buttons.