Repairing Permissions is not a placebo for one reason. If anything happens to your/tmp symlink a permissions repair will fix it. Without that link simple things like printing don't work. It's certainly not a cureall, but it's a good thing to start running while you search the Net for a real fix.
For the record, I have only seen the/tmp link get munged a couple of times since OS X DR3 came out, but
Then it's probably your keyboard. What I'd really like to see would be if "Hide Application" was greyed out - keyboard shortcuts don't work if the menu item is disabled. Swap keyboards and also see if that emnu item ever gets disabled. I'm guessing (I took a quick look at it) that an IM program will have a variety of different windows open, each of which could have a variety of modes, some of which might temporarily switch some menu items off.
"essentially" ? A quick check on Google and Ask.com shows nothing highly rated, just a few 3rd party utilities that have minor issues with cmd-H in the early Intel releases. Got Windowshade installed ?
If the open source IM program in question is Fire, then cmd-H has been working for me on several different machines for quite some time. You and the other user must have something else going on. Or it's a different program and I have nothing relevant to say.
And it looks like an awful lot of them are playing EVE now. Their sub numbers started slowly curving up around the time of that first dip and really took off after the second one. I guess all the Han Solo wannabes decided a rich space environment was better than a rapidly depopulating planetary environment.
Pretty much, yeah. This technique really requires being in a position of authority (possibly that derived from being an authority). Try that with, oh lets pick an example entirely at random, a touchy executive assistant and you hear about it from the IT director and HR come review time.
Yeah, that does usually work. It's really a very effective technique.
And the review picked a good game to test on. On a decent system EVE can be strikingly beautiful. If an MB can play that at all, it's "good enough" for 3D gaming although it's just as well it wasn't tested on Doom 3 or Half-Life 2.
The PS2 is arguably the weakest current-gen console, yes. However, it has a huge library of very good games, more coming [1], and many of the good ones are now $20 new. A $100-$120 PS2 with a good assortment of $20 games is likely to sell very well at Christmas. People who don't have a current-gen console, Xbox (inc. 360) owners, budget-conscious consumers... Well. I'm trying not to sound like a fanboy [2], but I think they'll sell a bunch of cheap PS2s, and every PS3 they make. The PS2 profits will help pad out PS3 losses, and the million BlueRay drives a month for the PS3s will help that division. Sony won't do too badly on the PS3/BlueRay business, and they might do very well.
How bad are those load times going to be for the PS3?
Since developers can count on having the hard drive present, not bad at all. The next level will be cached to the drive while you're playing the previous one. Cutscenes can be streamed directly from the disc. Some developers won't aggressively cache, they will be excoriated for the terrible load times that you're predicting will afflict every title. The hard drive being standard really will make a difference here. More system RAM won't help much, the games will be doing more so the extra capacity will get used, but it will help here and there.
There's good news and bad news about the new telephone monitoring program. The good news is, only people with terrorist connections will be tracked. The bad news is, Kevin Bacon just converted to Islam.
"All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again."
Sorry.
Just last week I was speaking with an Irish friend and trying to reassure him about the path my country is likely to take. And how long it will be before we wake up and turn the hell around. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, Roosevelt detained Japanse immigrant families, etc. We do this kind of stuff during wartime, and apologise and pay reparations later,
That's a legitimate criticism. However, this is a console game - if not one that looks worth appearing on next gen hardware. The trailer is trash insofar as gameplay stuff is shown. The cutscenes look moderately cool, looks like we're getting some cyber and corporate warfare. The deathmatch demo wasn't worth showing, it's a little more than oldschool - it's crude gameplay. Have I played too much RtCW, CoD and Red Faction and missed that BFG + jetpack = cool even after all these years ? Nothing here you couldn't do with a Quake 2 mod. It had better show a LOT better, this has got to be very early footage. Since there are only a half-dozen screenshots up (none terribly interesting) we'll probably see more about this at next year's E3. I like team and objective based gameplay in an FPS so if they pull this off and I end up with a 360 I might play. So far (from poking around on the website) the design sounds like Enemy Territory with a less ambitious campaign, trading sophisticated objectives for buying upgrades each round. I predict a major breakthrough in early winter, pushing the release date back 9 months while they frantically add sophistication to the gameplay. The only gametype listed so far is Raid, which is just "grab an artifact and get it off the map with a time limit". RtCW had a better map in the beta (mp_beach ftw), these guys had by god do better with the Shadowrun license.
Good catch, I re-checked the Mitch Gitelman article. He says "...allowing the world we loved to unfold over time." So everyone upset appears to be missing the point entirely. He leaves himself some wriggle room if they change some pieces, but that shouldn't be a huge problem (to most people).
Then there's "We figured that if people got addicted to the game, they would forgive our trespasses and stay with us while we developed the world step-by-step." Easy to read into, but it doesn't nearly say that they'e changing anything but the year.
Yeah, the Shadowrun world everyone knows is where magic has been back for a while. It's fleshed out with high-tech and a rich new tradition of magic, plus the fractured political landscape. What we're going to get is while things have only just happened. You won't play a mage who chooses spells from a book, you're going to be the one who wrote the book. Hell, six years into the timeline the Ghost Dance has barely happened, right ? The USA is still relatively intact and people are still changing once in a while (it's been a while since I read the timeline).
A very interesting time with some fantastic dramatic possibilities. For one thing, they can do games around major events in the timeline. We know how it turns out, but that's not going to keep me out of Red Orchestra and Forgotten Battles. An RTS set during the collapse of the United States ? And RPG about getting your ass out of a dragon's way ? A Syndicate remake set during the corprate wars ? I'm not a big Shadowrun fan (I have writing credits in a Cyberpunk supplement) but there are games here I'd buy.
It's not technically the Shadowrun universe you've played in before, but you'll get to be in the history books. Sounds great. Anyone not thrilled at the prospect of another FPS, consider the possibilites of Deus Ex with magic. Or, ok FEAR or Ghost Recon. Still, ok yeah it's an FPS and I rarely finish those in single player. Maybe they're hoping the FPS fans will buy it if it's good and the Shadowrun fans will buy tit for the setting.
Bated anticipation, actually. They're obviously vastly overoptimistic, but serious tools being developed in AJAX can only be a good thing. Mind, these aren't serious tools yet - they have a long way to go yet, but they are very nice proof-of-concept demos.
Carmony is probably an idiot, but there's nothing that says he can't try and make a semi-proprietary consumer OS.
I like my women like I like my whiskey, 18 years old and imported.
Coffee I take as a confection. The strongest darkest brew possible, cut with cream and honey. Or, an addiction in recent years, Carnation French Vanilla. Pity the low/nonfat version are vile, the rich stuff is incredible in good coffee. Two cups a day of that, and a third strong with a LOT of honey from the place on the corner. I'd go for a fourth after lunch, but I just plain don't *want* to be that awake at work.
Funny, but it was Xenosaga that sandwiched a save point between two cutscenes.
But Versus XIII... Visual style from the AC team, gameplay from the KH team to make it play in realtime like it used to look in the cutscenes. Hmmm. I'm already interested.
Well, pricing. Hmmm. The PS3 is going to be expensive, but only the rich fanboys will be buying it with just the launch titles available.... and they can afford these prices. They'll sell all the PS3s they ship. Demand won't be frantic like for the 360s, but they'll moves boxes. They'll also sell a lot of PS2s to people who want a new console to tide them over until the next-gen scene matures. There's a lot of PS2 content coming this year, twice as much as for Xbox (according to Gamefly's listings). And a lot of the PS2 titles coming are from developers who have done more than one title for PS2 already so the games are markedly better then the first couple of years of games. Sony Playstation as a corporate entity doesn't need the PS3 to get big fast, the PS2 sales will pad things out nicely.
Don't forget the fact that Sony is herein also announcing plans to ship a million Blue Ray players a month. They'll be 'buying' the drives from another Sony division which will then see excellent sales. Producing drives at these volumes will lead to economy of scale factors in Blue Ray devices very early in the lifecycle. Blue Ray will probably win the HD format wars as a result.
No they fucking shouldn't. Hard drives are cheap. Memory cards are expensive antiques. It's past time for a console vendor to bite the bullet and make them mandatory. All credit due to Sony for being the one. Maybe it isn't much, but they did it where Microsoft could have.
I want every game to cache to the hard drive. I want to get nostalgic about buying a new memory card for one more save slot. I want every developer to be dreaming of ways to use a big chunk of (relatively) fast storage to make his game better. I want custom soundtracks for every game.
You, friend, want a PS2. Or any current-gen system, really. New systems are relatively cheap, good games at 'greatest hits' prices are plentiful for every system and the used and rental markets are glutted. I mentioned PS2 for one reason (two if you count the fact that they're a client), the 'coming soon' list is still very healthy [1]. Lots of A list titles will be out for the holidays - all of them by developers with at least one A title for PS2 under their belts. Good time to own a PS2. There are 25 good games for PS2 available for $20 new. It's going to be a long time before there are 25 good games for any of the next-gen systems at any price. It'll be even longer before any one of the systems has 25. Wait.
[1] Gamefly.com lists 78 PS2 titles and 36 Xbox games in their "Coming Soon" category. The 360 ? A whopping 26 [2].
MPBT3025 was a brilliant tactical fps. They made no compromises with the canon mech and weapon stats in the game, and it worked out as a perfect recreation. Good, if simple meta game and very intense 4 on 4 matches. Gameplay was terrific. The best of it was getting in a group of good pilots in Javelin 10Ts (iirc, been a while, the 4 ML 25 tonner) and swarming an opposing squad. That was so much fun, the 10T is fast, heavily armed and has jump jets. And it's an fps - you have to actually hit the little SOB while it's flanking you. Tremendously satisfying to
Well, it was only 4v4 on a limited battlefield...
Ok. Mechwarrior. But it has to be 3025 and I'm going to have to insist on mech combat at least as good as MPBT was.
Fuck whoever cancelled that game. Right in his crusty ear. And his couch.
Or, if you simply must use something other than webkit, write it, convince users to put in/Library/Frameworks and convince developers to call it. Also, feel free to write something called Help.app and possibly even a WebKit replacement. The WebKit API is published, it *could* be reimplmented (by GPL fanatics with time on their hands ?), and the framework file itself can be replaced by any user with admin privs. One API, one (big) file.
Good luck getting people to go along with that, but it is technically possible on OS X, unlike Windows.
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/tmp symlink a permissions repair will fix it. Without that link simple things like printing don't work. It's certainly not a cureall, but it's a good thing to start running while you search the Net for a real fix.
/tmp link get munged a couple of times since OS X DR3 came out, but
Repairing Permissions is not a placebo for one reason. If anything happens to your
For the record, I have only seen the
Then it's probably your keyboard. What I'd really like to see would be if "Hide Application" was greyed out - keyboard shortcuts don't work if the menu item is disabled. Swap keyboards and also see if that emnu item ever gets disabled. I'm guessing (I took a quick look at it) that an IM program will have a variety of different windows open, each of which could have a variety of modes, some of which might temporarily switch some menu items off.
"essentially" ? A quick check on Google and Ask.com shows nothing highly rated, just a few 3rd party utilities that have minor issues with cmd-H in the early Intel releases. Got Windowshade installed ?
If the open source IM program in question is Fire, then cmd-H has been working for me on several different machines for quite some time. You and the other user must have something else going on. Or it's a different program and I have nothing relevant to say.
And it looks like an awful lot of them are playing EVE now. Their sub numbers started slowly curving up around the time of that first dip and really took off after the second one. I guess all the Han Solo wannabes decided a rich space environment was better than a rapidly depopulating planetary environment.
Yeah, that does usually work. It's really a very effective technique.
And the review picked a good game to test on. On a decent system EVE can be strikingly beautiful. If an MB can play that at all, it's "good enough" for 3D gaming although it's just as well it wasn't tested on Doom 3 or Half-Life 2.
The PS2 is arguably the weakest current-gen console, yes. However, it has a huge library of very good games, more coming [1], and many of the good ones are now $20 new. A $100-$120 PS2 with a good assortment of $20 games is likely to sell very well at Christmas. People who don't have a current-gen console, Xbox (inc. 360) owners, budget-conscious consumers... Well. I'm trying not to sound like a fanboy [2], but I think they'll sell a bunch of cheap PS2s, and every PS3 they make. The PS2 profits will help pad out PS3 losses, and the million BlueRay drives a month for the PS3s will help that division. Sony won't do too badly on the PS3/BlueRay business, and they might do very well.
[1] 78 in Gamefly's listings 2 weeks ago.
[2] But Sony is a client, and this is unofficial.
How bad are those load times going to be for the PS3?
Since developers can count on having the hard drive present, not bad at all. The next level will be cached to the drive while you're playing the previous one. Cutscenes can be streamed directly from the disc. Some developers won't aggressively cache, they will be excoriated for the terrible load times that you're predicting will afflict every title. The hard drive being standard really will make a difference here. More system RAM won't help much, the games will be doing more so the extra capacity will get used, but it will help here and there.
That reminds me, here's my joke on the topic.
There's good news and bad news about the new telephone monitoring program. The good news is, only people with terrorist connections will be tracked. The bad news is, Kevin Bacon just converted to Islam.
Too soon ?
"All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again."
Sorry.
Just last week I was speaking with an Irish friend and trying to reassure him about the path my country is likely to take. And how long it will be before we wake up and turn the hell around. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, Roosevelt detained Japanse immigrant families, etc. We do this kind of stuff during wartime, and apologise and pay reparations later,
This still looks bad though.
That's a legitimate criticism. However, this is a console game - if not one that looks worth appearing on next gen hardware. The trailer is trash insofar as gameplay stuff is shown. The cutscenes look moderately cool, looks like we're getting some cyber and corporate warfare. The deathmatch demo wasn't worth showing, it's a little more than oldschool - it's crude gameplay. Have I played too much RtCW, CoD and Red Faction and missed that BFG + jetpack = cool even after all these years ? Nothing here you couldn't do with a Quake 2 mod. It had better show a LOT better, this has got to be very early footage. Since there are only a half-dozen screenshots up (none terribly interesting) we'll probably see more about this at next year's E3. I like team and objective based gameplay in an FPS so if they pull this off and I end up with a 360 I might play. So far (from poking around on the website) the design sounds like Enemy Territory with a less ambitious campaign, trading sophisticated objectives for buying upgrades each round. I predict a major breakthrough in early winter, pushing the release date back 9 months while they frantically add sophistication to the gameplay. The only gametype listed so far is Raid, which is just "grab an artifact and get it off the map with a time limit". RtCW had a better map in the beta (mp_beach ftw), these guys had by god do better with the Shadowrun license.
Human, dwarf, elf, troll. WTF no Orcs ?
Good catch, I re-checked the Mitch Gitelman article. He says "...allowing the world we loved to unfold over time." So everyone upset appears to be missing the point entirely. He leaves himself some wriggle room if they change some pieces, but that shouldn't be a huge problem (to most people).
Then there's "We figured that if people got addicted to the game, they would forgive our trespasses and stay with us while we developed the world step-by-step." Easy to read into, but it doesn't nearly say that they'e changing anything but the year.
Yeah, the Shadowrun world everyone knows is where magic has been back for a while. It's fleshed out with high-tech and a rich new tradition of magic, plus the fractured political landscape. What we're going to get is while things have only just happened. You won't play a mage who chooses spells from a book, you're going to be the one who wrote the book. Hell, six years into the timeline the Ghost Dance has barely happened, right ? The USA is still relatively intact and people are still changing once in a while (it's been a while since I read the timeline).
A very interesting time with some fantastic dramatic possibilities. For one thing, they can do games around major events in the timeline. We know how it turns out, but that's not going to keep me out of Red Orchestra and Forgotten Battles. An RTS set during the collapse of the United States ? And RPG about getting your ass out of a dragon's way ? A Syndicate remake set during the corprate wars ? I'm not a big Shadowrun fan (I have writing credits in a Cyberpunk supplement) but there are games here I'd buy.
It's not technically the Shadowrun universe you've played in before, but you'll get to be in the history books. Sounds great. Anyone not thrilled at the prospect of another FPS, consider the possibilites of Deus Ex with magic. Or, ok FEAR or Ghost Recon. Still, ok yeah it's an FPS and I rarely finish those in single player. Maybe they're hoping the FPS fans will buy it if it's good and the Shadowrun fans will buy tit for the setting.
Bated anticipation, actually. They're obviously vastly overoptimistic, but serious tools being developed in AJAX can only be a good thing. Mind, these aren't serious tools yet - they have a long way to go yet, but they are very nice proof-of-concept demos.
Carmony is probably an idiot, but there's nothing that says he can't try and make a semi-proprietary consumer OS.
I like my women like I like my whiskey, 18 years old and imported.
Coffee I take as a confection. The strongest darkest brew possible, cut with cream and honey. Or, an addiction in recent years, Carnation French Vanilla. Pity the low/nonfat version are vile, the rich stuff is incredible in good coffee. Two cups a day of that, and a third strong with a LOT of honey from the place on the corner. I'd go for a fourth after lunch, but I just plain don't *want* to be that awake at work.
Funny, but it was Xenosaga that sandwiched a save point between two cutscenes.
But Versus XIII... Visual style from the AC team, gameplay from the KH team to make it play in realtime like it used to look in the cutscenes. Hmmm. I'm already interested.
Well, pricing. Hmmm. The PS3 is going to be expensive, but only the rich fanboys will be buying it with just the launch titles available.... and they can afford these prices. They'll sell all the PS3s they ship. Demand won't be frantic like for the 360s, but they'll moves boxes. They'll also sell a lot of PS2s to people who want a new console to tide them over until the next-gen scene matures. There's a lot of PS2 content coming this year, twice as much as for Xbox (according to Gamefly's listings). And a lot of the PS2 titles coming are from developers who have done more than one title for PS2 already so the games are markedly better then the first couple of years of games. Sony Playstation as a corporate entity doesn't need the PS3 to get big fast, the PS2 sales will pad things out nicely.
Don't forget the fact that Sony is herein also announcing plans to ship a million Blue Ray players a month. They'll be 'buying' the drives from another Sony division which will then see excellent sales. Producing drives at these volumes will lead to economy of scale factors in Blue Ray devices very early in the lifecycle. Blue Ray will probably win the HD format wars as a result.
No they fucking shouldn't. Hard drives are cheap. Memory cards are expensive antiques. It's past time for a console vendor to bite the bullet and make them mandatory. All credit due to Sony for being the one. Maybe it isn't much, but they did it where Microsoft could have.
I want every game to cache to the hard drive. I want to get nostalgic about buying a new memory card for one more save slot. I want every developer to be dreaming of ways to use a big chunk of (relatively) fast storage to make his game better. I want custom soundtracks for every game.
You, friend, want a PS2. Or any current-gen system, really. New systems are relatively cheap, good games at 'greatest hits' prices are plentiful for every system and the used and rental markets are glutted. I mentioned PS2 for one reason (two if you count the fact that they're a client), the 'coming soon' list is still very healthy [1]. Lots of A list titles will be out for the holidays - all of them by developers with at least one A title for PS2 under their belts. Good time to own a PS2. There are 25 good games for PS2 available for $20 new. It's going to be a long time before there are 25 good games for any of the next-gen systems at any price. It'll be even longer before any one of the systems has 25. Wait.
[1] Gamefly.com lists 78 PS2 titles and 36 Xbox games in their "Coming Soon" category. The 360 ? A whopping 26 [2].
[2] Cheap shot, the PS3 has zero (0).
True, compared to McCarthy at least Hitler was honest. Evil, but honest.
Not to mention that Junior doesn't whine and certainly isn't a wimp.
Not that I finished the first one.
NGE in TWO words:
Existentialist Mindfuck
yeahyeahyeahMechwarriorRPGwhatever
Bring back MPBT3025 !!!
MPBT3025 was a brilliant tactical fps. They made no compromises with the canon mech and weapon stats in the game, and it worked out as a perfect recreation. Good, if simple meta game and very intense 4 on 4 matches. Gameplay was terrific. The best of it was getting in a group of good pilots in Javelin 10Ts (iirc, been a while, the 4 ML 25 tonner) and swarming an opposing squad. That was so much fun, the 10T is fast, heavily armed and has jump jets. And it's an fps - you have to actually hit the little SOB while it's flanking you. Tremendously satisfying to
Well, it was only 4v4 on a limited battlefield...
Ok. Mechwarrior. But it has to be 3025 and I'm going to have to insist on mech combat at least as good as MPBT was.
Fuck whoever cancelled that game. Right in his crusty ear. And his couch.
And somebody who's really good at pointing at genitalia.
Or, if you simply must use something other than webkit, write it, convince users to put in /Library/Frameworks and convince developers to call it. Also, feel free to write something called Help.app and possibly even a WebKit replacement. The WebKit API is published, it *could* be reimplmented (by GPL fanatics with time on their hands ?), and the framework file itself can be replaced by any user with admin privs. One API, one (big) file.
Good luck getting people to go along with that, but it is technically possible on OS X, unlike Windows.