IMO, one of the best things about the Aqua GUI is the ability to set keyboard short-cuts for anything.
Incidentally, that's in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. If you use Preview for PDFs, then set an f-key for "Zoom to Fit", that's very handy.
Yeah, it happens. Mainstream file managers don't cope with massive directories. As a purely empirical conclusion, I"ll state that all versions of Windows suffer from problems just from having large temp directories, not just from trying to browse them. It's *any* access, which puts it deep in the system.
To be fair, I'll bash Apple for a sec. Back a few years I got a call from a user who had dropped over 10,000 images into one directory on a firewire drive. The Mac OS 9 Finder just died trying to read that directory. I hooked the drive up to one of the DP3 machines we had. And split the files up into subdirectories in seconds.
To be fair to Apple, closed folders with any number of files in them (that you could get into them) weren't a problem. And while not everyone agrees with some of the design decisions, most people would agree (yeah, yeah I know) that the Finder has always had higher-quality design work than any version of explorer.exe ever has. Face it, it has its bright spots but the Windows file manager has a lot of rough spots. Have no apparent attention paid to aesthetics is just the first to leap to mind.
Swimming. Food/exercise/looks. Kick-ass targetting. Running from a car full of toughs... on a bicycle (great animation for bike riding). Strategic metagame. No more damn hidden boxes - they have you spraying over your rival gang's tags. Compelling story well integrated into the game. Beating up crack dealers. Improved graphics.
I dunno. I just read the Game Informer dead-tree edition review, and both reviewers mentioned the lack of loading times. The lead review specifically said that you can play the entire single-player campaign without seeing a single loading screen.
Nice job by Bungie if they pulled it off. Shame on GI if they're wrong.
Yes. System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. Check the box marked "Turn on full keyboard access".
This allows you to tab between gui elements. Ctrl-F2 activates the menus for keyboard access. And you can edit shortcuts for every application you have.
Agreed. And, when watching Ep. II at home, just fast forward through the "frolicking" sequence and you end up with a markedly better movie. Eliminating that one scene greatly improves the pacing of the film and it removes the worst of the directing.
Yes, it's the directing. Natalie Portman is a better actress than that. Hell, Hayden Christenson is a better actor than that.
While you're waiting for his next game with the CoH engine, check out EVE Online. Four starting factions (not actively at war last I heard) and dozens of large player organizations make for very strong raiding and "realm" competition. EVE also has a lot of PvP. Core areas are patrolled by tough NPC ships, rim regions are patrolled by even tougher PC ships. On the downside, the game is very, very hard solo. If you don't have backup, you're dead in over half the map.
Have they changed the balancing on quest spawns since the stress test ? Back then the unique spawns were heavily camped everywhere outside on the instances. Far from the newbie areas things were ok, but the early levels (which you may not remmeber) were very crowded. Any improvements ?
And if Pakeerah had been a big Scarface fan maybe he'd have been killed with a chainsaw or a grenade launcher. Nothing to see here folks, just another clueless lawyer shilling for publicity.
Oh, I think there'll be a passenger market. Maybe small, but it'll be there.
Getting a corporate attorney from New York to Singapore in three hours will often be worth the price of a suborbital hop. The pace of business is now fast enough that there will be a small, core market for this service.
Brrr, yes. That had some of the earliest 3D sound implementations. Scared the frack out of me the first time a monster snuck up behind me when I had headphones on.
Graphically very good considering the hardware it was running a software renderer on.
When watching Ep. II, skip the "frolicking" scene entirely; the rest of the movie improves remarkably with that simple omission - yes, even the rest of the Anakin-Amidala scenes. What that one scene did to the pacing of the film should cost Lucas the most prestigious of the awards he's ever won, even just a high school debate trophy.
And the Connectix purchase makes a lot more sense with a PPC XBox2 in the works. I saw photos of a G5 (inside and out) in a print article about XB0x2 dev kits going out, possibly in Game Informer. The new graphics card emulation in VPC could be the first step towards a living-room-ready emulator for XBox2. If we're lucky it won't suffer from Second System Effect.
Microsoft's strategy is being revealed as "ship lots of really good games of all kinds". This may work, but Halo 3, Half Life 2 etc. as launch or near-launch titles [1] They're [2] also talking about keeping the flow of good games coming to build a base before PS3 ships.
[1] But I have a very nice mouse and a great monitor for FPS games on my PC.
[2] MS as the media are reporting it, for whatever that's really worth in the videogame industry.
Well, the Powerbook has the best graphics chip of the three laptops you have, so Quartz Extreme could be helping if the reported numbers are right. But the reported numbers *must* be wrong. A G4 should be faster than a G3 at the same clock, let alone triple it.
There's a strong emphasis in American jurisprudence on aqcuittal if there's any real indication of official misconduct. If the cops screw up even a little anywhere along the line, a good defense attorney can get a guilty man acquitted. This happened in the OJ Simpson case, the police got caught framing a guilty man. It keeps the police force honest, any infraction could set a crook free.
The intent of this was to balance the incredible weight that the state can bring to bear on an individual. Put Bill Gates [1] in solitary and beat his ass twice a day for a few weeks and he'll confess to anything despite his wealth and power in the marketplace. So would anyone. It's set up to ensure that the system is scrupulously fair. It fails sometimes, and a dedicated protofascist can find ways around it and get away with shit for a long time. But it still generally works and whenever the rules are strictly followed then justice is done.
[1] Easy example. A Forbes or a Kennedy would do as well.
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IMO, one of the best things about the Aqua GUI is the ability to set keyboard short-cuts for anything.
Incidentally, that's in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. If you use Preview for PDFs, then set an f-key for "Zoom to Fit", that's very handy.
Yeah, it happens. Mainstream file managers don't cope with massive directories. As a purely empirical conclusion, I"ll state that all versions of Windows suffer from problems just from having large temp directories, not just from trying to browse them. It's *any* access, which puts it deep in the system.
To be fair, I'll bash Apple for a sec. Back a few years I got a call from a user who had dropped over 10,000 images into one directory on a firewire drive. The Mac OS 9 Finder just died trying to read that directory. I hooked the drive up to one of the DP3 machines we had. And split the files up into subdirectories in seconds.
To be fair to Apple, closed folders with any number of files in them (that you could get into them) weren't a problem. And while not everyone agrees with some of the design decisions, most people would agree (yeah, yeah I know) that the Finder has always had higher-quality design work than any version of explorer.exe ever has. Face it, it has its bright spots but the Windows file manager has a lot of rough spots. Have no apparent attention paid to aesthetics is just the first to leap to mind.
Go for San Andreas then, it's GT3.5.
Swimming. Food/exercise/looks. Kick-ass targetting. Running from a car full of toughs... on a bicycle (great animation for bike riding). Strategic metagame. No more damn hidden boxes - they have you spraying over your rival gang's tags. Compelling story well integrated into the game. Beating up crack dealers. Improved graphics.
Well, I've made my after-dinner plans.
I dunno. I just read the Game Informer dead-tree edition review, and both reviewers mentioned the lack of loading times. The lead review specifically said that you can play the entire single-player campaign without seeing a single loading screen.
Nice job by Bungie if they pulled it off. Shame on GI if they're wrong.
Yes. System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. Check the box marked "Turn on full keyboard access".
This allows you to tab between gui elements. Ctrl-F2 activates the menus for keyboard access. And you can edit shortcuts for every application you have.
That goes in to the Hall of Anonymous Fame.
Agreed. And, when watching Ep. II at home, just fast forward through the "frolicking" sequence and you end up with a markedly better movie. Eliminating that one scene greatly improves the pacing of the film and it removes the worst of the directing.
Yes, it's the directing. Natalie Portman is a better actress than that. Hell, Hayden Christenson is a better actor than that.
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While you're waiting for his next game with the CoH engine, check out EVE Online. Four starting factions (not actively at war last I heard) and dozens of large player organizations make for very strong raiding and "realm" competition. EVE also has a lot of PvP. Core areas are patrolled by tough NPC ships, rim regions are patrolled by even tougher PC ships. On the downside, the game is very, very hard solo. If you don't have backup, you're dead in over half the map.
FilePlanet has sent out invitations to stress-test signups.
I'm in, suckers.
Specifically, for those who might not know, they're really the Washington D.C. Redskins. As in the nation's capitol.
Saying that thousands of teams play every weekend isn't very efefctive when we're talking about the hometeam for the government.
Have they changed the balancing on quest spawns since the stress test ? Back then the unique spawns were heavily camped everywhere outside on the instances. Far from the newbie areas things were ok, but the early levels (which you may not remmeber) were very crowded. Any improvements ?
Finally, evidence that the moderation system works.
Excuse me, I have to go to zee lobby.
And if Pakeerah had been a big Scarface fan maybe he'd have been killed with a chainsaw or a grenade launcher. Nothing to see here folks, just another clueless lawyer shilling for publicity.
Oh, I think there'll be a passenger market. Maybe small, but it'll be there.
Getting a corporate attorney from New York to Singapore in three hours will often be worth the price of a suborbital hop. The pace of business is now fast enough that there will be a small, core market for this service.
There are no +2 Mods, so it has to be.
Imagine one of your deepest traumas... and add Microsoft.
I can't see the submission queue. but I'll bet some variation on "Micro$oft is teh evil for buying Bungie" gets submitted at least once a month.
Brrr, yes. That had some of the earliest 3D sound implementations. Scared the frack out of me the first time a monster snuck up behind me when I had headphones on.
Graphically very good considering the hardware it was running a software renderer on.
Useful tip:
When watching Ep. II, skip the "frolicking" scene entirely; the rest of the movie improves remarkably with that simple omission - yes, even the rest of the Anakin-Amidala scenes. What that one scene did to the pacing of the film should cost Lucas the most prestigious of the awards he's ever won, even just a high school debate trophy.
You just bought yourself a friend with that .sig.
And the Connectix purchase makes a lot more sense with a PPC XBox2 in the works. I saw photos of a G5 (inside and out) in a print article about XB0x2 dev kits going out, possibly in Game Informer. The new graphics card emulation in VPC could be the first step towards a living-room-ready emulator for XBox2. If we're lucky it won't suffer from Second System Effect.
Microsoft's strategy is being revealed as "ship lots of really good games of all kinds". This may work, but Halo 3, Half Life 2 etc. as launch or near-launch titles [1] They're [2] also talking about keeping the flow of good games coming to build a base before PS3 ships.
[1] But I have a very nice mouse and a great monitor for FPS games on my PC.
[2] MS as the media are reporting it, for whatever that's really worth in the videogame industry.
Well, the Powerbook has the best graphics chip of the three laptops you have, so Quartz Extreme could be helping if the reported numbers are right. But the reported numbers *must* be wrong. A G4 should be faster than a G3 at the same clock, let alone triple it.
If they showed "that slide" I'd go to even fewer meetings than I do now.
Remember, even Unix systems like a little rebootin' now and then.
Not Linux, that's perfect.
There's a strong emphasis in American jurisprudence on aqcuittal if there's any real indication of official misconduct. If the cops screw up even a little anywhere along the line, a good defense attorney can get a guilty man acquitted. This happened in the OJ Simpson case, the police got caught framing a guilty man. It keeps the police force honest, any infraction could set a crook free.
The intent of this was to balance the incredible weight that the state can bring to bear on an individual. Put Bill Gates [1] in solitary and beat his ass twice a day for a few weeks and he'll confess to anything despite his wealth and power in the marketplace. So would anyone. It's set up to ensure that the system is scrupulously fair. It fails sometimes, and a dedicated protofascist can find ways around it and get away with shit for a long time. But it still generally works and whenever the rules are strictly followed then justice is done.
[1] Easy example. A Forbes or a Kennedy would do as well.