This is really Apple's huge hole in their product lineup and has been for years now. If you want a replacement for your G4 or even a G5 Powermac tower you're shit out of luck unless you want some huge beast with 8 cores that is setup for being a server, a laptop with a 24" monitor attached to it, or a laptop without a screen or keyboard (bring your own!).
Oh, alternatively you can just buy a Macbook or Macbook Pro laptop and have laptop performance with a smaller screen than the iMac. All they need to do is release a tower "Mac" (drop the Pro even) with standard non-Xeon Intel processors (Intel quad-core Core i7 920 would be perfect), and a *nice* video card lineup option of either low end, medium end, and a high end gamer video card option. Throw in a 640GB or 1TB SATA option, 4GB of memory standard, and so on and you'd have a smoking desktop system. Sadly, Apple will not release this so even though my next system will have these specifications, it will not be a Mac. I'll happily run Windows 7 on it.
As referenced by their ability to place awesome cutting edge games like Doom 3, Quake 4, and Unreal Tournament 2004. Seriously, every time Apple tries to make it look like their computers are any good at playing video games I feel embarrassed for them. Meanwhile I can take that 5 year old computer I was using to play Doom 3 when it came out and put in a new video card and actually get a performance boost out of it for about $100. Too bad you can't upgrade Macs, but at least they're more recyclable so when you throw out your 2 year old incredibly obsolete Mac Mini someone can turn it into a tin can and you can buy a new $900 Mini.
Did the old player even support Macs at all? I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I could watch streaming movies on my Mac via the Silverlight player... I haven't experienced any of the problems you're talking about unless you're watching it on a 65" TV.
It's basically YouTube high quality streaming and I can live with that for a free add-on service to my DVD subscription. I probably wouldn't pay for the streaming if it was extra though since there is simply not enough content I want to watch.
I know I requested two of the coupons a few weeks ago and had no problem with availability. I got them on Saturday. I kind of feel bad since I haven't used rabbit ears to watch TV in over 25 years (too far away to pick up anything but a few channels in HD unless I put a huge antenna on the roof) but I figured it's silly to turn down free stuff.
If you're going to interpret rendering a page with less "features" as generating a sister site then Mosaic 1.0 is prior art for this patent. Try browsing the web with Mosaic 1.0 and you'll see a drastically different web "scaled down" for older computers by cutting out Flash, Java, Javascript, CSS... hell, it may not have even supported tables.
The days of ubiquitous free open WiFi are long gone. Newer WiFi routers usually enable WPA or at least WEP encryption by default now. AT&T has been rolling out their 2Wire WiFi routers with at least WEP enabled for at least 2 or 3 years now. When I moved into my neighborhood I counted 8 or 9 open access points and today there are zero that are not protected by some form of encryption.
I don't remember the last time I stayed in a hotel that offered free WiFi that didn't require you to access it through some kind of portal verifying your stay there or providing credit card details to bill you per night for the service. Still, I find myself needing WiFi less and less now that my iPhone supports high-speed 3G data. For the sites I browse it is more than fast enough for my needs to just use 3G all the time while I'm away from home.
It's probably easy for them to mistake this for a Duke Nukem Forever announcement since it is so very rare that game developers announce a new port of a 12 and a half year old computer game to yet another new platform.
In case some people haven't realized it yet, Duke Nukem Forever is a JOKE guys. The whole point of the joke is that Duke Nukem will continue to be ported to new platforms "forever" as they become available. There isn't going to be an actual game with killer graphics called "Duke Nukem Forever", it's just the same rehashed pseudo-3D game from 1996 on newer platforms, or occasionally a rehashing of the 2D side-scrolling platform versions.
It's silly to think that any company would be so completely inept at game development that they couldn't produce a simple FPS for a computer after more than 12 years when much cooler games have been developed and released in less than 2 years! That's the joke!
In your defense, this IS the second generation iPhone so I wouldn't expect this kind of issue. They should've had 3G models in testing since before the original iPhone EDGE model was released. Problems like this are inexcusable.
My town had a recycling drive so I took some old computers down there and the guy just took them and threw them in a big dumpster. I'm sure they've been refurbished by now into a nice paperweight.
You have to be a total moron to use old computers for distributed computing. The amount of electricity you waste and heat you generate is ridiculous considering you can replicate the computing power of dozens of older systems with a single new box which uses the same amount of electricity as a single node of the old systems.
Sure, there's something to be said for using them as an educational tool, but again, you're still better off getting a newer high powered box and just running a virtualization environment on it to mess around with distributed parallel computing environments.
"Have a seat over here. Would you like some cookies or a refreshment? I see you have a pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade there. Did you also bring condoms?"
You know, I thought the same thing until I saw the pathetic array of "official" third-party iPhone applications. The only applications I saw even remotely interesting were the AOL Radio, Movies.app, NYTimes, WeatherBug, and YPmobile.
All of these except AOL Radio could have just as well been web apps instead of native applications. I won't even entertain the idea of paying for any of the other applications since there is no concept of shareware or trial periods. I'm not about to throw away $10 on an application that I may not even like.
To top it all off, this 2.0 firmware sucks battery life like crazy compared to 1.1.4. My battery is half-dead after only 4 hours off the charger and 30 minutes of use. I used to go for 2-3 days between charging and that was browsing on EDGE for 30-60 minutes a day and using the phone to talk. WTF Apple!?
Uhhh, you guys act like GM burned the plans for the EV1 and murdered all the engineers. If GM WANTS to make an electric car, or just reproduce the EV1, they could do it in months, if not weeks. The problem is that the EV1, deep down, SUCKED. Nobody wanted one, it wasn't cheap enough and it wasn't marketable. It was a failure and GM isn't going to resurrect a failure.
How the heck do you watch 6 discs at a time? Man, I've had the same three set of movies for about 3 or 4 months now and I just don't have time to watch them yet. I'm glad I don't have to worry about penalties though.
Why would they care though? Once you purchase your ticket they couldn't care less if you just turned around and walked right out since they have your money. Unless this place charges money per ride that is.
If I invite you into my home and tell you to leave your cell phone at home, but you choose to bring it anyway, are you telling me I have the right to confiscate it from you and keep it? It's one thing if the park forces you to leave and refunds the price of your tickets, it's an entirely different form of thievery to steal your personal property.
Speak for yourself. I've ditched my laptop and just carry around a jailbroken iPhone now to do all my remote administration via SSH. In fact, I don't even own a computer at home because my iPhone has completely replaced its functionality.
lolz!
On the flip side, once in awhile it'll screw up and skip over entire sections of the program because it thought they were a commercial. Unless MythTV's commercial skip feature has gotten better in the last few years I found it to be very hit-or-miss and found it was much more reliable to just 30-second-skip forward over commercials.
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This is really Apple's huge hole in their product lineup and has been for years now. If you want a replacement for your G4 or even a G5 Powermac tower you're shit out of luck unless you want some huge beast with 8 cores that is setup for being a server, a laptop with a 24" monitor attached to it, or a laptop without a screen or keyboard (bring your own!).
Oh, alternatively you can just buy a Macbook or Macbook Pro laptop and have laptop performance with a smaller screen than the iMac. All they need to do is release a tower "Mac" (drop the Pro even) with standard non-Xeon Intel processors (Intel quad-core Core i7 920 would be perfect), and a *nice* video card lineup option of either low end, medium end, and a high end gamer video card option. Throw in a 640GB or 1TB SATA option, 4GB of memory standard, and so on and you'd have a smoking desktop system. Sadly, Apple will not release this so even though my next system will have these specifications, it will not be a Mac. I'll happily run Windows 7 on it.
They have games for Macs now?
As referenced by their ability to place awesome cutting edge games like Doom 3, Quake 4, and Unreal Tournament 2004. Seriously, every time Apple tries to make it look like their computers are any good at playing video games I feel embarrassed for them. Meanwhile I can take that 5 year old computer I was using to play Doom 3 when it came out and put in a new video card and actually get a performance boost out of it for about $100. Too bad you can't upgrade Macs, but at least they're more recyclable so when you throw out your 2 year old incredibly obsolete Mac Mini someone can turn it into a tin can and you can buy a new $900 Mini.
I would wager that the minute their Silverlight player comes out of beta the old player will be discontinued though.
Did the old player even support Macs at all? I was pleasantly surprised when I found out I could watch streaming movies on my Mac via the Silverlight player... I haven't experienced any of the problems you're talking about unless you're watching it on a 65" TV.
It's basically YouTube high quality streaming and I can live with that for a free add-on service to my DVD subscription. I probably wouldn't pay for the streaming if it was extra though since there is simply not enough content I want to watch.
I know I requested two of the coupons a few weeks ago and had no problem with availability. I got them on Saturday. I kind of feel bad since I haven't used rabbit ears to watch TV in over 25 years (too far away to pick up anything but a few channels in HD unless I put a huge antenna on the roof) but I figured it's silly to turn down free stuff.
If you're going to interpret rendering a page with less "features" as generating a sister site then Mosaic 1.0 is prior art for this patent. Try browsing the web with Mosaic 1.0 and you'll see a drastically different web "scaled down" for older computers by cutting out Flash, Java, Javascript, CSS... hell, it may not have even supported tables.
The days of ubiquitous free open WiFi are long gone. Newer WiFi routers usually enable WPA or at least WEP encryption by default now. AT&T has been rolling out their 2Wire WiFi routers with at least WEP enabled for at least 2 or 3 years now. When I moved into my neighborhood I counted 8 or 9 open access points and today there are zero that are not protected by some form of encryption.
I don't remember the last time I stayed in a hotel that offered free WiFi that didn't require you to access it through some kind of portal verifying your stay there or providing credit card details to bill you per night for the service. Still, I find myself needing WiFi less and less now that my iPhone supports high-speed 3G data. For the sites I browse it is more than fast enough for my needs to just use 3G all the time while I'm away from home.
Can't they already do all those things with Windows Mobile? That OS is complete shit though.
It's probably easy for them to mistake this for a Duke Nukem Forever announcement since it is so very rare that game developers announce a new port of a 12 and a half year old computer game to yet another new platform.
In case some people haven't realized it yet, Duke Nukem Forever is a JOKE guys. The whole point of the joke is that Duke Nukem will continue to be ported to new platforms "forever" as they become available. There isn't going to be an actual game with killer graphics called "Duke Nukem Forever", it's just the same rehashed pseudo-3D game from 1996 on newer platforms, or occasionally a rehashing of the 2D side-scrolling platform versions.
It's silly to think that any company would be so completely inept at game development that they couldn't produce a simple FPS for a computer after more than 12 years when much cooler games have been developed and released in less than 2 years! That's the joke!
Now you're just being ridiculous and making up numbers. My cable bill is well under $215... not even $205. Idiot.
In your defense, this IS the second generation iPhone so I wouldn't expect this kind of issue. They should've had 3G models in testing since before the original iPhone EDGE model was released. Problems like this are inexcusable.
My town had a recycling drive so I took some old computers down there and the guy just took them and threw them in a big dumpster. I'm sure they've been refurbished by now into a nice paperweight.
You have to be a total moron to use old computers for distributed computing. The amount of electricity you waste and heat you generate is ridiculous considering you can replicate the computing power of dozens of older systems with a single new box which uses the same amount of electricity as a single node of the old systems.
Sure, there's something to be said for using them as an educational tool, but again, you're still better off getting a newer high powered box and just running a virtualization environment on it to mess around with distributed parallel computing environments.
"Have a seat over here. Would you like some cookies or a refreshment? I see you have a pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade there. Did you also bring condoms?"
I'm sure there are plenty of homosexual men that enjoy gymnastics, this is just Slashdot being sexist.
You know, I thought the same thing until I saw the pathetic array of "official" third-party iPhone applications. The only applications I saw even remotely interesting were the AOL Radio, Movies.app, NYTimes, WeatherBug, and YPmobile.
All of these except AOL Radio could have just as well been web apps instead of native applications. I won't even entertain the idea of paying for any of the other applications since there is no concept of shareware or trial periods. I'm not about to throw away $10 on an application that I may not even like.
To top it all off, this 2.0 firmware sucks battery life like crazy compared to 1.1.4. My battery is half-dead after only 4 hours off the charger and 30 minutes of use. I used to go for 2-3 days between charging and that was browsing on EDGE for 30-60 minutes a day and using the phone to talk. WTF Apple!?
Uhhh, you guys act like GM burned the plans for the EV1 and murdered all the engineers. If GM WANTS to make an electric car, or just reproduce the EV1, they could do it in months, if not weeks. The problem is that the EV1, deep down, SUCKED. Nobody wanted one, it wasn't cheap enough and it wasn't marketable. It was a failure and GM isn't going to resurrect a failure.
How the heck do you watch 6 discs at a time? Man, I've had the same three set of movies for about 3 or 4 months now and I just don't have time to watch them yet. I'm glad I don't have to worry about penalties though.
I'd like to see YouTube embrace Ogg Theora format and make it easier to download videos.
And I want free broadband Internet access and a pony. Oh, and I want a speedboat with a lifetime* supply of free gasoline.* - never make that wish to a genie because he'll give you a gallon of gas and a speedboat and then the boat will explode and kill you.
Why would they care though? Once you purchase your ticket they couldn't care less if you just turned around and walked right out since they have your money. Unless this place charges money per ride that is.
If I invite you into my home and tell you to leave your cell phone at home, but you choose to bring it anyway, are you telling me I have the right to confiscate it from you and keep it? It's one thing if the park forces you to leave and refunds the price of your tickets, it's an entirely different form of thievery to steal your personal property.
Speak for yourself. I've ditched my laptop and just carry around a jailbroken iPhone now to do all my remote administration via SSH. In fact, I don't even own a computer at home because my iPhone has completely replaced its functionality. lolz!
Yea, I subscribe to ad-block plus too. People that pay for web sites are idiots.
On the flip side, once in awhile it'll screw up and skip over entire sections of the program because it thought they were a commercial. Unless MythTV's commercial skip feature has gotten better in the last few years I found it to be very hit-or-miss and found it was much more reliable to just 30-second-skip forward over commercials.