There's one possibility where P2P somewhere in the OS domain makes sense (open-source bundled app most likely): User created content.
With iMovie, GarageBand and all the other content creating apps you could easily (for very large values of easy) throw up a front end and index and categorize content hosted on the end-user's machines. This not only opens up a whole new world of self-publishing rich media of all sorts (buzzwords, heh; and 'all sorts' will be 78% pr0n by traffic) but also lets Apple brand the experience without footing the staggering Akamai bill when everyone with a cute puppy (or drunk girlfriend) and a camcorder goes nuts and fills a 500GB drive.
I'll second that. Try the IL-2 demo at 3DGamers. Be very sure to try the naval strike missions for the Sturmovik itself, attacking convoys in a thunderstorm is not to be missed. The graphics on that have been updated at least once since then in the major overhaul that was Forgotten Battles. Online play through Hyperlobby does rock, with online campaign play supported and lots of servers up. A whole new sim (Battle of Britain) is due in 07 or 08 from the same developer, curent patchlevels are using a development BoB flight model.
If you love combat flying and don't have this yet, there's a Platinum edition alredy out for download and the first of 3 expansion packs due this year just came out (we're still due Manchuria '38 and a 1946 expansion). It's a good time to get into the game.
I'm just pimpin' it 'cause I want to see more people online.
No I hadn't seen that. Holy crap, that's a development demo ? More polys in Snake's moustache than in an enemy from MGS3 ?
Admittedly the MGS team can do amazing things with any hardware (look at the work on Otacon's appearance on a video monitor), but the PS3 is starting to look staggeringly powerful. I can't wait to see what the Ico/Colossus team does with it.
Entourage is certainly a nicer program than Outlook. The lack of true Exchange connectivity is its second greatest flaw. The BIG problem is users with a ton of filed mail and databases growing to 3 or 4GB. Amazingly, I see very f corrupt databases these days, even at that size. The size isn't the problem so much as that it's all in one big file for everything. That's a horrific problem for doing backups, the limited caching doesn't help much with catching the database between changes. Mail.app saves mail as text (.mbox files split into individual messages). The Entourage database has a lot of text that looks like what you'll see in a.mbox file, so it's parseable.
I don't agree with the 'one big file' approach (vehement hatred is more like it), but I will admit that they have finally gotten their code right (Entourage 2001 was a nightmare, so this is the third version). Rebuilds are rare these days, mail doesn't get eaten and they did a neat trick with Spotlight. When 10.4 came out, the MBU said "we don't think so" to Spotlight support but pulled it off in the new update.
Oh, and do check out both OmniGraffle (best Cocoa code factory around), it's a terrific little diagrammer - beautiful output. And also look at FreeMind. "A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding." Java app, interface needs work, would be very interesting to use for a live presentation.
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I just tried the old DOS version last month:-) I own (but can't find) a Mac versio from 15 years ago. I downloaded this little gem as soon as I saw the parent post.
The new version is very nicely updated. He didn't change much, but he's working with a some what large palette and can use a few more polys for detail. Looks fantastic.
Macs have always been good in multi-bhoot configurations. Way back in the dotcom days our QA department handed us a list of 45 PC configurations (OS and browser combos) and 14 Mac system. This request was made in all seriousnous, as if even a dotcom could come up with the office space for an extra 60 machines. We got the PC test builds done with removable hard drives (Orb drives - easier to swap than IDE removables) . For the Macs I just partitioned the drives 8 ways, named them appropriately and installed the OS and browser required on each. Startup Disk.cdev was a great bootloader for that situation.
These days VMWare or another virtualization environment would be the better choice.
Yeah, but it's not like drugs and Kingdom Hearts are a bad combination.
II is at the top of my queue on Gamefly. And yes, I did just miss getting it for the weekend. Damnit. Maybe drugs and Kingdom Hearts are a bad combination.
Entourage 2004: click the line in the headers that says "remove message from server". Next time you connect, the Pop server deletes the message from your store, but it's still siting in your local in box complete with attachment. very nice feature in a pretty well designed MUA. Don't get me on about the database system it uses.
Would we liked to have heard about the Intel transition before it happened? Sure. But as a planner, I can't think of one actual strategic decision that would have changed for us. At all.
I'm in the same line of work, and I'd have done one thing differently if I'd known about the Intel transition. I'd have budgeted for some "extra" G4 laptops to avoid business interruption [1] and lost opportunity [2] due to a tight supply of laptops during the product line transition. But they announced the Mac Book in early January, long after budgets are submitted
There is an "Apple product roadmap" in existence, I was given a copy by our Apple rep at MacWorld. It's all publicly available information and derivations from known product lifecycles. And it's all she knows. At best you can predict the year of a product transition, but not the severity. The last PowerBook stock vanished from channel remarkably quickly. I hope it isn't as tough to get desktops, gotta check on the next lease expiration...
Just watch the product lifecycles. That covers the hardware. Software ? God knows, and that's the killer for making 5-year plans.
And as for the suspect troll ? I'm thinking that the worst thing about the laptop catching on fire was that he'd almost finished copying a 17MB file...
[1] my one-time repair loaner is now permanently allocated to a full-time employee who travels every week. Somebody who should be travelling currently has a a desktop unit because I'm fresh out of laptops (not broken, stolen). I hope he asks me about keeping the 23" LCD, I'm gonna tell him that he probably won't need to worry about giving it up - and see if he gets the picture.
[2] We can't easily grow our account team - they travel and need laptops. We're fresh out. This puts a least a cramp on existing accounts and new business,
Something I've been saying for years. People cannot resist the tempation of the forbidden. I've helped clean up after virus outbreaks because a senior developer "wanted to see what would happen".
Put a large red button on the wall. Put up a sign next to it that says "Pressing this button will kill you" (in all locally relevant languages). People will stop pressing the button only when the pile of bodies completely obscures both the sign and the button.
I'm not saying the button is a bad idea, just that the maintenance requirements may be higher than expected.
I'm partial to this page on SST: Heinlein vs Verhoeven. Good discussion of the book, and a nice debunking of some of the BS and misunderstandings about the book.
One other bump for EVE in recognition of the GP's opening point: it has an extremely rich portrait creator. When I had an active account I only used two character slots. I kept the third so I could play with making faces. I'd pay $15 for the facemaker software to use as a party game.
I suppose some could complain that you can't do much with the look of your ship, but I certainly wouldn't want every detail of my configuration available to anyone who can get a visual scan on me.
The User Transfer applications Is Very Nice [1]. It'll move whole user folders, applications that aren't on the destination Mac, system library items, folders loose on the hard drive, everything. It even manages to save icon positions on the desktop - a key factor for a lot of people. If PCs had a Target Disk mode, Apple would probably have a utility to snag data from an XP install as well.
The one catch is it's kinda slow calculating sizes (and won't let you continue until it has done its math on every step (3 of 'em). Also, run Disk Utility on the source disk before trying this. It'll make things go a LOT faster if the source volume has a clean catalog.
[1] Apple is a client btw, this posting isn't an official statement on anybody's behalf.
Well sure it's more expensive, Apple doesn't manufacture (ok, assemble) in Australia so there's extra freight costs to consider. And your currency is backed by kangaroo pelts and the word "cunt" so you should be used to being ripped off on imports by now.
I got hands-on with Photoshop (briefly) on an Intel iMac at MacWorld. The interface is responsive, but CPU intensive stuff like the half-dozen random filters I tried was slower than on the dual G5 I have on my desk. The MacBooks have a very similar architecture and slightly slower CPUs, so I'd say they'd be juuust a little worse than the iMac. Of course, everything native will scream so if you aren't in CS all day then it might work out.
Until CS goes native it will be a Creative Director's machine and not an Art Director's (if your industry uses that terminology, I'm in advertising). The CDs work extensively in CS but also have to spend a lot of time with with email, project websites, scripts in Word and budgets in Excel (Office is fine in emulation). The performance hit from running CS in Rosetta is, after all, in comparison to a dual G5 not a single G4. Rosetta is reported to like a lot of RAM, so a MacBook with 4 GB should be a marked performance increase over a G4 PowerBook.
Just incidentally, VirtualPC includes an OEM copy of Windows. I have a Win98 disc around here somewhere with "Connectix" as the manufacturer. They're the real deal, holograms and all.
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There's one possibility where P2P somewhere in the OS domain makes sense (open-source bundled app most likely):
User created content.
With iMovie, GarageBand and all the other content creating apps you could easily (for very large values of easy) throw up a front end and index and categorize content hosted on the end-user's machines. This not only opens up a whole new world of self-publishing rich media of all sorts (buzzwords, heh; and 'all sorts' will be 78% pr0n by traffic) but also lets Apple brand the experience without footing the staggering Akamai bill when everyone with a cute puppy (or drunk girlfriend) and a camcorder goes nuts and fills a 500GB drive.
I'll second that. Try the IL-2 demo at 3DGamers. Be very sure to try the naval strike missions for the Sturmovik itself, attacking convoys in a thunderstorm is not to be missed. The graphics on that have been updated at least once since then in the major overhaul that was Forgotten Battles. Online play through Hyperlobby does rock, with online campaign play supported and lots of servers up. A whole new sim (Battle of Britain) is due in 07 or 08 from the same developer, curent patchlevels are using a development BoB flight model.
If you love combat flying and don't have this yet, there's a Platinum edition alredy out for download and the first of 3 expansion packs due this year just came out (we're still due Manchuria '38 and a 1946 expansion). It's a good time to get into the game.
I'm just pimpin' it 'cause I want to see more people online.
No I hadn't seen that. Holy crap, that's a development demo ? More polys in Snake's moustache than in an enemy from MGS3 ?
Admittedly the MGS team can do amazing things with any hardware (look at the work on Otacon's appearance on a video monitor), but the PS3 is starting to look staggeringly powerful. I can't wait to see what the Ico/Colossus team does with it.
Entourage is certainly a nicer program than Outlook. The lack of true Exchange connectivity is its second greatest flaw. The BIG problem is users with a ton of filed mail and databases growing to 3 or 4GB. Amazingly, I see very f corrupt databases these days, even at that size. The size isn't the problem so much as that it's all in one big file for everything. That's a horrific problem for doing backups, the limited caching doesn't help much with catching the database between changes. Mail.app saves mail as text (.mbox files split into individual messages). The Entourage database has a lot of text that looks like what you'll see in a .mbox file, so it's parseable.
I don't agree with the 'one big file' approach (vehement hatred is more like it), but I will admit that they have finally gotten their code right (Entourage 2001 was a nightmare, so this is the third version). Rebuilds are rare these days, mail doesn't get eaten and they did a neat trick with Spotlight. When 10.4 came out, the MBU said "we don't think so" to Spotlight support but pulled it off in the new update.
Oh, and do check out both OmniGraffle (best Cocoa code factory around), it's a terrific little diagrammer - beautiful output. And also look at FreeMind. "A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding." Java app, interface needs work, would be very interesting to use for a live presentation.
But we'd all really rather you didn't.
I just tried the old DOS version last month :-) I own (but can't find) a Mac versio from 15 years ago. I downloaded this little gem as soon as I saw the parent post.
The new version is very nicely updated. He didn't change much, but he's working with a some what large palette and can use a few more polys for detail. Looks fantastic.
Macs have always been good in multi-bhoot configurations. Way back in the dotcom days our QA department handed us a list of 45 PC configurations (OS and browser combos) and 14 Mac system. This request was made in all seriousnous, as if even a dotcom could come up with the office space for an extra 60 machines. We got the PC test builds done with removable hard drives (Orb drives - easier to swap than IDE removables) . For the Macs I just partitioned the drives 8 ways, named them appropriately and installed the OS and browser required on each. Startup Disk.cdev was a great bootloader for that situation.
These days VMWare or another virtualization environment would be the better choice.
Yeah, but it's not like drugs and Kingdom Hearts are a bad combination.
II is at the top of my queue on Gamefly. And yes, I did just miss getting it for the weekend. Damnit. Maybe drugs and Kingdom Hearts are a bad combination.
Entourage 2004: click the line in the headers that says "remove message from server". Next time you connect, the Pop server deletes the message from your store, but it's still siting in your local in box complete with attachment. very nice feature in a pretty well designed MUA. Don't get me on about the database system it uses.
They did a monitor in two days for me once. I was duly impressed.
Would we liked to have heard about the Intel transition before it happened? Sure. But as a planner, I can't think of one actual strategic decision that would have changed for us. At all.
I'm in the same line of work, and I'd have done one thing differently if I'd known about the Intel transition. I'd have budgeted for some "extra" G4 laptops to avoid business interruption [1] and lost opportunity [2] due to a tight supply of laptops during the product line transition. But they announced the Mac Book in early January, long after budgets are submitted
There is an "Apple product roadmap" in existence, I was given a copy by our Apple rep at MacWorld. It's all publicly available information and derivations from known product lifecycles. And it's all she knows. At best you can predict the year of a product transition, but not the severity. The last PowerBook stock vanished from channel remarkably quickly. I hope it isn't as tough to get desktops, gotta check on the next lease expiration...
Just watch the product lifecycles. That covers the hardware. Software ? God knows, and that's the killer for making 5-year plans.
And as for the suspect troll ? I'm thinking that the worst thing about the laptop catching on fire was that he'd almost finished copying a 17MB file...
[1] my one-time repair loaner is now permanently allocated to a full-time employee who travels every week. Somebody who should be travelling currently has a a desktop unit because I'm fresh out of laptops (not broken, stolen). I hope he asks me about keeping the 23" LCD, I'm gonna tell him that he probably won't need to worry about giving it up - and see if he gets the picture.
[2] We can't easily grow our account team - they travel and need laptops. We're fresh out. This puts a least a cramp on existing accounts and new business,
And this, boys and girls, is why there's a -1: New User modifier.
Something I've been saying for years. People cannot resist the tempation of the forbidden. I've helped clean up after virus outbreaks because a senior developer "wanted to see what would happen".
Put a large red button on the wall. Put up a sign next to it that says "Pressing this button will kill you" (in all locally relevant languages). People will stop pressing the button only when the pile of bodies completely obscures both the sign and the button.
I'm not saying the button is a bad idea, just that the maintenance requirements may be higher than expected.
I'm partial to this page on SST: Heinlein vs Verhoeven. Good discussion of the book, and a nice debunking of some of the BS and misunderstandings about the book.
Now THAT is worth a +1: Insightful.
Not to state the obvious, but .XVIII would work nicely.
Well, it is a little long...
If there was an advertisment in WoW for hand lotion, however, I would be less than pleased.
That might actually work out for Blizzard, there's a reason there are a lot of level 1 Night Elves running around naked.
One other bump for EVE in recognition of the GP's opening point: it has an extremely rich portrait creator. When I had an active account I only used two character slots. I kept the third so I could play with making faces. I'd pay $15 for the facemaker software to use as a party game.
I suppose some could complain that you can't do much with the look of your ship, but I certainly wouldn't want every detail of my configuration available to anyone who can get a visual scan on me.
The User Transfer applications Is Very Nice [1]. It'll move whole user folders, applications that aren't on the destination Mac, system library items, folders loose on the hard drive, everything. It even manages to save icon positions on the desktop - a key factor for a lot of people. If PCs had a Target Disk mode, Apple would probably have a utility to snag data from an XP install as well.
The one catch is it's kinda slow calculating sizes (and won't let you continue until it has done its math on every step (3 of 'em). Also, run Disk Utility on the source disk before trying this. It'll make things go a LOT faster if the source volume has a clean catalog.
[1] Apple is a client btw, this posting isn't an official statement on anybody's behalf.
Prepare three envelopes...
Well sure it's more expensive, Apple doesn't manufacture (ok, assemble) in Australia so there's extra freight costs to consider. And your currency is backed by kangaroo pelts and the word "cunt" so you should be used to being ripped off on imports by now.
I got hands-on with Photoshop (briefly) on an Intel iMac at MacWorld. The interface is responsive, but CPU intensive stuff like the half-dozen random filters I tried was slower than on the dual G5 I have on my desk. The MacBooks have a very similar architecture and slightly slower CPUs, so I'd say they'd be juuust a little worse than the iMac. Of course, everything native will scream so if you aren't in CS all day then it might work out.
Until CS goes native it will be a Creative Director's machine and not an Art Director's (if your industry uses that terminology, I'm in advertising). The CDs work extensively in CS but also have to spend a lot of time with with email, project websites, scripts in Word and budgets in Excel (Office is fine in emulation). The performance hit from running CS in Rosetta is, after all, in comparison to a dual G5 not a single G4. Rosetta is reported to like a lot of RAM, so a MacBook with 4 GB should be a marked performance increase over a G4 PowerBook.
Wow, wouldja look at all the replies under this post !
I think we have another entry for all-time grand champion troll. He's certainly got the monthly title sewn up.
Just incidentally, VirtualPC includes an OEM copy of Windows. I have a Win98 disc around here somewhere with "Connectix" as the manufacturer. They're the real deal, holograms and all.
IH(P)BT, but games like this do sell in Japan. As I've been saying for years, there has GOT to be a way to make money off of white trash.