True. Not even gcc is present on a default install of 10.3, so fink won't do you nearly as much good without the dev tools installed.
Incidentally, be sure and check Apple's site for stable binaries of major FOSS packages - they have a lot of them in.pkg form. I specifically mention this because Apple's 4.00.x MySQL works on Client whereas OS X packages from other developers (4.10.x notably) have trouble creating their lock files. I may have been doing (or not doing) something stupid about permissions, but too much of my time goes to desktop and Other Peoples Servers issues for me to be happy sorting that out. I may be just a goofball when it comes to this stuff, but anyone wanting a 'safe' route can just grab stuff from Apple directly.
Then there's the whole issue of optimized compiler flags for the binaries, Apple may have tweaked things a bit.
It's a pretty safe bet that the Xindi all get smoked somewhere during the arc (yes, probably near the end). They've been playing up the Andorians, placing them in conflict with the Vulcans. Jeffrey Coombs (from DS9) plays an Andorian captain and shows up farly often. A few other known races have popped up, notably the Klingons but I think we've had a tellarite too. I suspect they're going to remix the timeline as part of a Grand Storyline. Then again, I thought the "whole new direction" for the show wasn't going to be the Xindi arc, but rather a timeline and continuity change. And a costume change to an updated TOS look. Boy was I wrong.
And I'm still dead positive that we've seen a Romulan on camera. Probably early first season. I'm convinced on no evidence.
As an experiment, try watching AOTC without the whole "frolicking" scene. The movie as a whole improves remarkably without it, even the rest of the poorly directed (Hayden Chistensen is a better actor than that - which is saying exactly as much as you think it is) Anakin/Padme scenes are tolerable with one of the worst scenes in science fiction history cut out.
I can agree with that. The second season of Family guy was awful and Futurama never had the same kind of biting commentary that The Simpsons did. Both were good shows and above average for television (except that 2nd season of FG), but The Simpsons is just better than just about everything else out there.
Ugh. I had suppressed Quickmail LAN. Thanks. I ran that on... a Performa 620 - with a 20MB drive. For 25 people. Christ that was ugly. The software stank. Bad design, funky mail archives that corrupted and everything was stored on the server until filed locally. Did I mention the 20 MB drive ? There were physical confrontations over mail quotas.
I haven't done Notes since '99. I was at the Gap then and figured out that all the six patches and the attendant reboots (seven counting the install to get to 4.76) were unnecessary. I put the two extensions and the application folder on a share and just copied them down for new setups. They thought it was magic.
Entourage is our current standard, X is a big improvement over 2001. They raised the mail store limitation from 2GB to 4GB (signed to unsigned int) but it isn't stable at sizes much over 2GB anyway. One big file for all your PIM, in a horribly arcane binary format. One glitch, and it's recorrupt. And directory damage or crosslinking will hurt large, frequently modified files first. As happened recently at the office recently. The poor woman had three Databse files in her home directory (active, archive and a backup stashed away). All three files (1.6GB to 1.94 GB) got crosslinked. It took most of two days to retrieve everything, and I still have some crumbs to sweep up.
I personally am using Mail.app/iCal/AddressBook . Mail.app integrates nicely with LDAP servers set up in Address Book. I hhaven't ever gotten much use out of shared calendars, even though my bosses have. My mail folders contain two years of mail, all seamlessly imported from Entourage (AppleScript it looked like). Searches take 2-4 seconds (dual G5), indexes don't break, and there's a vast body of knowledge on working with.mbox files. Prior to 10.3 Mail.app was *not* capable of handling that much, but in 10.3 things were running fine on a 500MGhz G4 (minus three months worth of mail)
That happened in EVE too. The groups formed during beta teamed up immediately after launch and never looked back. After a year it's turned into a very intense PvP game - I got ambushed and killed just for passing through someone's territory.
PvP is much more fun for the hardcore player - they have the good stuff.
They'll get to the 31-60 range soon enough. Just remember this, the lower-level game has to be good or you'll lose people before they even get to the high-end stuff. At this point thye could bump it 5 points a month and still manage a release this year.
Would January be a good time to launch an MMO title ? I'd think putting out a new title just as people finish their Christmas presents is probably a good idea. EVE's launch was interrupted by the holidays and I've seen other projects (game and otherwise) get disrupted by the holidays. Aiming for late-January to early February would let the staff take their holidays and still have a few weeks before it goes gold. From a project management standpoint it'd work nicely. Same goes for the team members.
I can't confirm-confirm that, but I have heard the same thing. OE 4.5 did bear a striking similarity to Emailer.
We got a 250-seat license for Emailer with Appleshare IP 5.0. Then my evil moron of a boss (bad combination) bought a 50-seat license for QuickMail Pro literally on a fucking golf course. Naturally I had to deploy THAT piece of crap instead of Emailer, or the boss would have wasted money. Moron.
I hate three pieces of software: QuickMail, PowerPoint and Quark Xpress. Where I am now, my first task was to complete the migration from QuickMail to Entourage - which still bears some resemblance to Emailer, despite a broken back-end design. Quark is gone once Adobe stops fooling around, and Keynote is standing by to replace PPT - we've already started presenting from PDFs in full-screen mode. In a technical sense, it's a pretty good job, but I've lost track of how many dotted lines I have on the org chart (no solid line either, which is odd).
Actually, Dantz has done a rather remarkable job of making software that doesn't suck in Retrospect. I don't think I'd use it to feed a big tape caddy backing up massive Netware servers, but it has its uses. Compared to the Veritas setup downstairs that I don't *really* manage, Retrospect has a very spiffy tabbed interface with easy access to managing backups and, most importantly, getting stuff back off of tape. I was able to respond to requests for "The March database for $CLIENT [1] from 4 years ago" with "March 3rd, 17th or 21st ?". I actually miss setting up clever rotation schemes or trying to recreate someone's desktop exactly as it was three days ago.
[1] Usually Apple. The most evil thing Apple has ever done was to outsource certain functions to those evil fools.
I can top that. A VP of Web Development who designed all of our page layouts in... Photoshop. And then insisted that the Dreamweaver monkeys (anyone I have to explain "W3C validator" to is a Dreamweaver monkey) make it appear pixel-perfect across many platforms (45+ platforms for PC and about 14 for Macs - OS and browser combinations). Ever have to watch a half-dozen highly-paid "developers" struggle for three days to fix two pixel's worth of text alignment ?
He was a VP. Nobody cared, even when I explained that 'almost perfect" would save us tens of thousands of dollars in labor and enable us to make deadlines. I went in the first round, he was there to help turn out the lights.
Apple's going with PDF documentation for the consumer space. But in the Pro space, they still ship manuals. I'd have to drop a Final Cut Pro box on a shipping scale to know exactly how much the thing weighs, but it's about 4 inches of paper manuals - two volumes - and keyboard shortcut templates. This actually makes sense, the margins on iLife can't be that big, certainly not big enough to pay for printing a 200 page manual.
It passes the 'heft' test nicely, but not the Christmas Morning test (nothing rattles).
Notice that the combat was good enough to leave you wanting more things to fight ? There are legitimate gameplay flaws that you do point out, but it wasn't a fighting game so the designers clearly made their compromises there. Personally, I say they hire *bunch* of animators and do a full-on kung fu game with the engine. Maybe something with guns. Has anyone played both PoP and Enter the Matrix ? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. PoP makes ETM look a lot worse than it was, especially on PS2. [1]
The graphics programming was fantastic and rightly won an award. They went for simple everywhere they could in the design of the look, a lot of the models are lower-poly and more coarsely textured than you remmeber them as because the animation is spot on. And I didn't know you could get graphics like that out of a PS2, it's an engine that cries out to be used in other games, and not just the sequel. I
The various slo-mo elements and rewind worked well and alleviated a lot of the frustration common in platformers - and looks cooler than taking a continue. They built the story to justify slo-mo, but I can't fault them for how they executed on it. Playing with time even follows PoP tradition - the first game had a time limit.
But KoTOR is the first-ever Star Wars RPG. And it's from BioWare. It won Game of the Year. We have to accept the inevitable outcome.
[1] For the love of God have the Need for Speed people do the driving sections. Or somebody. I'm dreaming.
I'm actually having a little trouble evangelizing Safari over IE at the office. But we're getting there. Under 10.2.8 at least, Safari is vulerable to a font or text-encoding issue that IE isn't, so that's one user who won't switch soon. People like to stay with what they know. Of course, when Quark Xpress goes away, it goes all the way away - no arguments, adapt or die.
Of course, when it comes to computers most of my people are...
LThe ongest Journey was very well reviewed in all the major magazines, so it got the attention it deserved. It won all the honors because it had no competition. Then after it was no longer a hot topic, coverage died off and there was nothing in the genre to replace it. It's not like there are lots (several) of mediocre adventure games that aren't getting a lot of press, whole quarters go by without a release. That's pretty close to a dead genre in my book.
Ubi badly screwed up its release scheduling this past Christmas and that buried the two excellent games you mentioned: Prince of Persia and Beyond Good & Evil. BG&E had lots of style and good gameplay, PoP was highly polished from story to visuals. Both are practically free now, although Gamefly isn't giving them away right now ($17 and $28 respectively).
The one Star Wars game that I really wish was a lot better was Rebellion. That had a lot of promise as an RTS/4X combination and its space combat was reeeeeeal close to dead-on for Star Wars. Oh well. Excuse me, I feel a nostalgia fit come on, where's that CD ?
Really ? They'll change their tune after playing against a system where the video card is the bottleneck - and that a 9600. G5s run Quake3 engine games very well, it's optimised for the dual processors and very fast system bus only helps.
Nobody agrees about any of the benchmarks, so Google 'em yourself.
And the guy with the Mac gets to laugh at everyone with driver problems:-)
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Oh sure, and as soon as they TURN YOUR NAME OVER TO THIER OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR CONSIDERATION OF LEGAL ACTION their outside counsel will take one look at the prospect of jointly suing the feds and the UC system (which is now run by a former Bell Labs employee) and THEIR OUTSIDE COUNSEL WILL RUN SCREAMING FOR THE HILLS.
This is what happens when AOL bollixes a user's computer. AOL 5.0 and 6.0 did lovely things like overwriting networking DLLs to prevent the user from using any other dial-up connection.
I've taken support calls from people that this has happened to. "AOL broke your computer, you'll have to reinstall Windows. Oh, by the way there's already a class action lawsuit, better look into that." At times like that I wished devoutly that we were a law school and not a med school; keeping a nurse from accessing patient records doesn't have the same swift and dire consequences that keeping a lawyer out of PACER does.
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True. Not even gcc is present on a default install of 10.3, so fink won't do you nearly as much good without the dev tools installed.
.pkg form. I specifically mention this because Apple's 4.00.x MySQL works on Client whereas OS X packages from other developers (4.10.x notably) have trouble creating their lock files. I may have been doing (or not doing) something stupid about permissions, but too much of my time goes to desktop and Other Peoples Servers issues for me to be happy sorting that out. I may be just a goofball when it comes to this stuff, but anyone wanting a 'safe' route can just grab stuff from Apple directly.
Incidentally, be sure and check Apple's site for stable binaries of major FOSS packages - they have a lot of them in
Then there's the whole issue of optimized compiler flags for the binaries, Apple may have tweaked things a bit.
Does anyone remember Metrowerks complaining about the DevTools being included ?
No.
Did Metrowerks drop their Mac product and start touting Windows as their preferred platform ?
No.
It's a pretty safe bet that the Xindi all get smoked somewhere during the arc (yes, probably near the end). They've been playing up the Andorians, placing them in conflict with the Vulcans. Jeffrey Coombs (from DS9) plays an Andorian captain and shows up farly often. A few other known races have popped up, notably the Klingons but I think we've had a tellarite too. I suspect they're going to remix the timeline as part of a Grand Storyline. Then again, I thought the "whole new direction" for the show wasn't going to be the Xindi arc, but rather a timeline and continuity change. And a costume change to an updated TOS look. Boy was I wrong.
And I'm still dead positive that we've seen a Romulan on camera. Probably early first season. I'm convinced on no evidence.
The factory wasn't terriblly boring, I actually kinda enjoyed it in a goofy sense. A flying R2 is, however, going too far.
As an experiment, try watching AOTC without the whole "frolicking" scene. The movie as a whole improves remarkably without it, even the rest of the poorly directed (Hayden Chistensen is a better actor than that - which is saying exactly as much as you think it is) Anakin/Padme scenes are tolerable with one of the worst scenes in science fiction history cut out.
Don't forget the US$4 billion they made the year before that, and the year before that...
By some freak coincidence, that particular cute alien chick was trying to take the ship to... Andromeda !
I can agree with that. The second season of Family guy was awful and Futurama never had the same kind of biting commentary that The Simpsons did. Both were good shows and above average for television (except that 2nd season of FG), but The Simpsons is just better than just about everything else out there.
+1: Phonetically Phunny
Read it out loud folks.
Ugh. I had suppressed Quickmail LAN. Thanks. I ran that on... a Performa 620 - with a 20MB drive. For 25 people. Christ that was ugly. The software stank. Bad design, funky mail archives that corrupted and everything was stored on the server until filed locally. Did I mention the 20 MB drive ? There were physical confrontations over mail quotas.
.mbox files. Prior to 10.3 Mail.app was *not* capable of handling that much, but in 10.3 things were running fine on a 500MGhz G4 (minus three months worth of mail)
I haven't done Notes since '99. I was at the Gap then and figured out that all the six patches and the attendant reboots (seven counting the install to get to 4.76) were unnecessary. I put the two extensions and the application folder on a share and just copied them down for new setups. They thought it was magic.
Entourage is our current standard, X is a big improvement over 2001. They raised the mail store limitation from 2GB to 4GB (signed to unsigned int) but it isn't stable at sizes much over 2GB anyway. One big file for all your PIM, in a horribly arcane binary format. One glitch, and it's recorrupt. And directory damage or crosslinking will hurt large, frequently modified files first. As happened recently at the office recently. The poor woman had three Databse files in her home directory (active, archive and a backup stashed away). All three files (1.6GB to 1.94 GB) got crosslinked. It took most of two days to retrieve everything, and I still have some crumbs to sweep up.
I personally am using Mail.app/iCal/AddressBook . Mail.app integrates nicely with LDAP servers set up in Address Book. I hhaven't ever gotten much use out of shared calendars, even though my bosses have. My mail folders contain two years of mail, all seamlessly imported from Entourage (AppleScript it looked like). Searches take 2-4 seconds (dual G5), indexes don't break, and there's a vast body of knowledge on working with
That happened in EVE too. The groups formed during beta teamed up immediately after launch and never looked back. After a year it's turned into a very intense PvP game - I got ambushed and killed just for passing through someone's territory.
PvP is much more fun for the hardcore player - they have the good stuff.
They'll get to the 31-60 range soon enough. Just remember this, the lower-level game has to be good or you'll lose people before they even get to the high-end stuff. At this point thye could bump it 5 points a month and still manage a release this year.
Would January be a good time to launch an MMO title ? I'd think putting out a new title just as people finish their Christmas presents is probably a good idea. EVE's launch was interrupted by the holidays and I've seen other projects (game and otherwise) get disrupted by the holidays. Aiming for late-January to early February would let the staff take their holidays and still have a few weeks before it goes gold. From a project management standpoint it'd work nicely. Same goes for the team members.
I can't confirm-confirm that, but I have heard the same thing. OE 4.5 did bear a striking similarity to Emailer.
We got a 250-seat license for Emailer with Appleshare IP 5.0. Then my evil moron of a boss (bad combination) bought a 50-seat license for QuickMail Pro literally on a fucking golf course. Naturally I had to deploy THAT piece of crap instead of Emailer, or the boss would have wasted money. Moron.
I hate three pieces of software: QuickMail, PowerPoint and Quark Xpress. Where I am now, my first task was to complete the migration from QuickMail to Entourage - which still bears some resemblance to Emailer, despite a broken back-end design. Quark is gone once Adobe stops fooling around, and Keynote is standing by to replace PPT - we've already started presenting from PDFs in full-screen mode. In a technical sense, it's a pretty good job, but I've lost track of how many dotted lines I have on the org chart (no solid line either, which is odd).
Actually, Dantz has done a rather remarkable job of making software that doesn't suck in Retrospect. I don't think I'd use it to feed a big tape caddy backing up massive Netware servers, but it has its uses. Compared to the Veritas setup downstairs that I don't *really* manage, Retrospect has a very spiffy tabbed interface with easy access to managing backups and, most importantly, getting stuff back off of tape. I was able to respond to requests for "The March database for $CLIENT [1] from 4 years ago" with "March 3rd, 17th or 21st ?". I actually miss setting up clever rotation schemes or trying to recreate someone's desktop exactly as it was three days ago.
[1] Usually Apple. The most evil thing Apple has ever done was to outsource certain functions to those evil fools.
I can top that. A VP of Web Development who designed all of our page layouts in... Photoshop. And then insisted that the Dreamweaver monkeys (anyone I have to explain "W3C validator" to is a Dreamweaver monkey) make it appear pixel-perfect across many platforms (45+ platforms for PC and about 14 for Macs - OS and browser combinations). Ever have to watch a half-dozen highly-paid "developers" struggle for three days to fix two pixel's worth of text alignment ?
He was a VP. Nobody cared, even when I explained that 'almost perfect" would save us tens of thousands of dollars in labor and enable us to make deadlines. I went in the first round, he was there to help turn out the lights.
The Mac version sucks too.
Apple's going with PDF documentation for the consumer space. But in the Pro space, they still ship manuals. I'd have to drop a Final Cut Pro box on a shipping scale to know exactly how much the thing weighs, but it's about 4 inches of paper manuals - two volumes - and keyboard shortcut templates. This actually makes sense, the margins on iLife can't be that big, certainly not big enough to pay for printing a 200 page manual.
It passes the 'heft' test nicely, but not the Christmas Morning test (nothing rattles).
Notice that the combat was good enough to leave you wanting more things to fight ? There are legitimate gameplay flaws that you do point out, but it wasn't a fighting game so the designers clearly made their compromises there. Personally, I say they hire *bunch* of animators and do a full-on kung fu game with the engine. Maybe something with guns. Has anyone played both PoP and Enter the Matrix ? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. PoP makes ETM look a lot worse than it was, especially on PS2. [1]
The graphics programming was fantastic and rightly won an award. They went for simple everywhere they could in the design of the look, a lot of the models are lower-poly and more coarsely textured than you remmeber them as because the animation is spot on. And I didn't know you could get graphics like that out of a PS2, it's an engine that cries out to be used in other games, and not just the sequel. I
The various slo-mo elements and rewind worked well and alleviated a lot of the frustration common in platformers - and looks cooler than taking a continue. They built the story to justify slo-mo, but I can't fault them for how they executed on it. Playing with time even follows PoP tradition - the first game had a time limit.
But KoTOR is the first-ever Star Wars RPG. And it's from BioWare. It won Game of the Year. We have to accept the inevitable outcome.
[1] For the love of God have the Need for Speed people do the driving sections. Or somebody. I'm dreaming.
I'm actually having a little trouble evangelizing Safari over IE at the office. But we're getting there. Under 10.2.8 at least, Safari is vulerable to a font or text-encoding issue that IE isn't, so that's one user who won't switch soon. People like to stay with what they know. Of course, when Quark Xpress goes away, it goes all the way away - no arguments, adapt or die.
Of course, when it comes to computers most of my people are...
LThe ongest Journey was very well reviewed in all the major magazines, so it got the attention it deserved. It won all the honors because it had no competition. Then after it was no longer a hot topic, coverage died off and there was nothing in the genre to replace it. It's not like there are lots (several) of mediocre adventure games that aren't getting a lot of press, whole quarters go by without a release. That's pretty close to a dead genre in my book.
Ubi badly screwed up its release scheduling this past Christmas and that buried the two excellent games you mentioned: Prince of Persia and Beyond Good & Evil. BG&E had lots of style and good gameplay, PoP was highly polished from story to visuals. Both are practically free now, although Gamefly isn't giving them away right now ($17 and $28 respectively).
The one Star Wars game that I really wish was a lot better was Rebellion. That had a lot of promise as an RTS/4X combination and its space combat was reeeeeeal close to dead-on for Star Wars. Oh well. Excuse me, I feel a nostalgia fit come on, where's that CD ?
Really ? They'll change their tune after playing against a system where the video card is the bottleneck - and that a 9600. G5s run Quake3 engine games very well, it's optimised for the dual processors and very fast system bus only helps.
:-)
Nobody agrees about any of the benchmarks, so Google 'em yourself.
And the guy with the Mac gets to laugh at everyone with driver problems
Oh sure, and as soon as they TURN YOUR NAME OVER TO THIER OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR CONSIDERATION OF LEGAL ACTION their outside counsel will take one look at the prospect of jointly suing the feds and the UC system (which is now run by a former Bell Labs employee) and THEIR OUTSIDE COUNSEL WILL RUN SCREAMING FOR THE HILLS.
This is what happens when AOL bollixes a user's computer. AOL 5.0 and 6.0 did lovely things like overwriting networking DLLs to prevent the user from using any other dial-up connection.
I've taken support calls from people that this has happened to. "AOL broke your computer, you'll have to reinstall Windows. Oh, by the way there's already a class action lawsuit, better look into that." At times like that I wished devoutly that we were a law school and not a med school; keeping a nurse from accessing patient records doesn't have the same swift and dire consequences that keeping a lawyer out of PACER does.