That is a really nice insight into Gil's time at Apple. I always assumed he had been a total waste of time but he did in fact do quite a lot of good.
At the time of Amelios reign I had a IIcx and a performa 5200 and was pretty un-happy with the direction the mac os was going in. I remember the copland project getting pushed further and further back and in fact I remember modding system 7 to make it look like copland using a resedit hack I downloaded.
Also, the funniest thing is I went to Apple expo in london during Amelios reign and actually got a free mac t shirt from Power Computing which was advertising their 225 mhz mac clone. The slogan was "Anything worth doing is worth doing in excess of 225Mhz!!!" and on the back "My mac is faster than your mac". Classic!
The x-box had it and it didn't sell. Nobody has ever in my opinion come up with a satisfactory reason for the failure of the x-box.
See point one.
Another one that amazed me is that one post said the x-box had signed the big names. Bungie and EA. Wtf? Bungie IS NOT a big name. They got 1 game and that is it. EA is big but EA signs on to anything. Getting EA to endorse your new console is like getting a hooker to go out with you for money. Even/.ers should be able to manage that.
Erm what? Xbox already had EA supporting them, and Microsoft owns bungie so obviously Bungie would be supporting Microsoft. Also, bungie only got one game? Clearly you don't know your history, Bungie was out and out the most critically successful Mac games producer ever, also making very critically successful games for pc. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/myth2soulbligh ter/Myth II is about as good as a computer game can possibly be. To all those who followed Halo's development, Microsofts initial purchase of them was most definitely a big thing, given that it was clear even from early dev shots that halo could be something special.
As for the graphics being amazing. Oh please. I already play at higher resolutions on my now 2yr old PC. Richer friends won't accept anything less then 1600x1200 while sony's own games like eq2 can already make use of 512mb video cards despite the fact they were not even out. Other recent games to can make use of hardware features that even top of the range pc's don't have let alone these weak consoles.
You seem to be confused about the difference between a computer monitor and a TV screen. See this article: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/dtv2.htm Weak Consoles, do you realise the xbox360 has a triple core processor? How many of these do you see in your local PC shop? The current fastest dual core AMD is the 4800 X2, which is dual core 2.4ghz per core. Which costs around 800 dollars! http://shopper.cnet.com/AMD_Athlon_64_X2_4800/4014 -3086_9-31396324.html. Note: The cheaper xbox360 costs 300 dollars. Want to carry on comparing the un-comparable? I suggest you start with melons and small off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic wardens.
The 360 is lacking launch titles and has not got the mindshare with the general public.
How on earth can you compare the success of the register, an it and science news site, to wikipedia, an online encyclopedia.
Really, one is something a LOT of people need to use frequently (an encyclopedia). The other is a site for purely a thin slice of the general public (an IT themed news site).
The fact you even suggest a comparison between the two suggests you aren't really seeing the bigger picture here.
It's like me saying, look Maggie, the bbc website is much better designed than yours! Its like comparing apples and wombats.
Oh and dont accuse the register of being cross-eyes purely because it has a different opinion to yours. This is life, people don't all have to think the same.
This is the typical pro wiki argument (this has already been pointed out by Andrew Orlowski).
When someone dares to say anything against it the typical response is "ah do something better yourself!!"
The point they are missing is, wikipedia portrays itself as an encyclopedia, most people have a very definite idea of what this. These people dont know how un trustworthy wiki articles can be. They associate the word encyclopedia with Grolier, Encarta or the Britannica. ie: trusted sources that in the majority can be trusted and are verified. You can;t assume that every person that uses the wikipedia is familar with how it works, these people are in a minority. If the majority wikipedias articles don't come from trusted sources or are not verified or contain errors then it SHOULD NOT call itself an encyclopedia.
When I open an encyclopedia its similar to when I open a dictionary, I assume that what I read has been verified numerous times and by respected sources . When I read wikipedia, I take everything with a pinch of salt. I dread all those students citing wikipedia in their essays thinking it is a bona fida source of information.
Well, he's not actually a troll, as has already been pointed out. His article was very valid in every point it made about wikipedia. His point is proven about the "wiki-fiddlers" by all the inflammatory replies he gets on slashdot shouting: "TROLL!". It seems a lot of the people most passionate about wikipedia are also some of the most stubborn, close-minded net users out there, who can't bear to hear anything that would tarnish their baby.
The thing that seems most obvious is that why would these "wiki-fiddlers" get so annoyed if what Andrew was writing wasn't true? They would simply laugh it off, or come up with constructive arguments. But no, they simply shout "TROLL, he doesnt know what hes talking about, he stupid yayayaya".
If you think about it, it's not really highly critical at all, mainly because the odds are that there will be no programs written that exploit these security flaws. If these were Windows flaws then yes, it would be critical as you could bet a virus would be written within the week that exploited them.
I bet you could leave your OSX system unpatched for years without ever really being at risk.
-- Virtually Seamless. Loading was streamed during gameplay to allow for huge levels.
-- Only two weapons allowed to held at any one time.
-- First FPS to implement vehicles WELL.
-- Excellent Story, commonly regarded as one of the best ever in an FPS
-- Enemy and Friendly AI considered to be among the best ever
-- The best physics engine ever seen when it was realised.
-- Cooperative Mode, how many other FPS's allow that?
-- Possibly the best soundtrack ever for an FPS
Probably more points more its early and im tired...
I'm just waiting for all the stories in the American media with headlines such as: "We saved the internet", "Internet kept out of hands of cheese eating surrender monkeys!", etc etc
Seriously, this whole debate was decided by the pressure from big American IT firms and also the furore in the American press about this whole issue. Anyone less well informed than the average geek would think the rest of the world was planning to take the internet, rape it, tie some bricks to its legs and row it over the bridge with the way the press has dealt with this topic.
Another five years till this comes up again.. i'm hoping for a more democratic contest next time.
No, you're wrong. No game on ps2 that has an equivalent on xbox has better graphics than the xbox version. As basically every review of games released on both has said.
Not only that but you state that you played on 1080i on ps2 and 480p on xbox. In case you hadn't realised, this is what's called an unfair test.
I cannot actually believe you are trying to compare graphics between things run at different resolutions. *sigh*
I actually have two original unopened (still in vacuum plastic wrap) copies of mac marathon that I bought from a mac games shop around five years ago. As Bungie gets more and more famous i'm just figuring these may be worth something.. especially if the halo movie is a big success..
I learned Haskell at university and I strongly advise you to avoid it. Its an evil evil language.
It reduced most students at my university into gibbering wrecks and is a sure fire way to turn your brain inside out.
Here is the haskell function definition for foldr, this basically had the best programmers I know completely baffled and took me about 3 or 4 hours deep thought to grasp..
foldr:: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b
foldr f z [] = z
foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs)
Yeah but that would mean spending the time editing each copy of the screaner they sent out separately in this fashion. Yeah it would probably work but Disney just wants a quick and easy solution.
Incidentally, any up for making bets as to how quickly this Cine program will be reverse engineered and owned? Where's DVD John? Ah crap he's moved to the US:(
Slashdot Mirror
That is a really nice insight into Gil's time at Apple. I always assumed he had been a total waste of time but he did in fact do quite a lot of good.
At the time of Amelios reign I had a IIcx and a performa 5200 and was pretty un-happy with the direction the mac os was going in. I remember the copland project getting pushed further and further back and in fact I remember modding system 7 to make it look like copland using a resedit hack I downloaded.
Also, the funniest thing is I went to Apple expo in london during Amelios reign and actually got a free mac t shirt from Power Computing which was advertising their 225 mhz mac clone. The slogan was "Anything worth doing is worth doing in excess of 225Mhz!!!" and on the back "My mac is faster than your mac". Classic!
Your geek card is hereby confiscated!!
Seriously, though this is possibly the funniest thing ive seen all day.
Spider bots??
Anyone else thinking deus ex?... *sigh* God I loved that game..
How this post got modded insightful i'll never understand.. maybe because its anti-microsoft...
1 067. If that means it bombed then the gamecube bombed too.
/.ers should be able to manage that.
h ter/ Myth II is about as good as a computer game can possibly be. To all those who followed Halo's development, Microsofts initial purchase of them was most definitely a big thing, given that it was clear even from early dev shots that halo could be something special.
4 -3086_9-31396324.html. Note: The cheaper xbox360 costs 300 dollars. Want to carry on comparing the un-comparable? I suggest you start with melons and small off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic wardens.
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The x-box was supposed to have the higher tech and the live advantage and it bombed.
I direct you to here: the xbox outsells the gamecube everywhere except Japan. http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=1
The x-box had it and it didn't sell. Nobody has ever in my opinion come up with a satisfactory reason for the failure of the x-box.
See point one.
Another one that amazed me is that one post said the x-box had signed the big names. Bungie and EA. Wtf? Bungie IS NOT a big name. They got 1 game and that is it. EA is big but EA signs on to anything. Getting EA to endorse your new console is like getting a hooker to go out with you for money. Even
Erm what? Xbox already had EA supporting them, and Microsoft owns bungie so obviously Bungie would be supporting Microsoft. Also, bungie only got one game? Clearly you don't know your history, Bungie was out and out the most critically successful Mac games producer ever, also making very critically successful games for pc. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/myth2soulblig
As for the graphics being amazing. Oh please. I already play at higher resolutions on my now 2yr old PC. Richer friends won't accept anything less then 1600x1200 while sony's own games like eq2 can already make use of 512mb video cards despite the fact they were not even out. Other recent games to can make use of hardware features that even top of the range pc's don't have let alone these weak consoles.
You seem to be confused about the difference between a computer monitor and a TV screen. See this article: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/dtv2.htm Weak Consoles, do you realise the xbox360 has a triple core processor? How many of these do you see in your local PC shop? The current fastest dual core AMD is the 4800 X2, which is dual core 2.4ghz per core. Which costs around 800 dollars! http://shopper.cnet.com/AMD_Athlon_64_X2_4800/401
The 360 is lacking launch titles and has not got the mindshare with the general public.
Xbox360 Launch Line up: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6139695.html
PS2 Launch Line up: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c
Indeed, most people regard PS2's launch as one of the worst ever with the DC being one of the best ever. The ps2 steam rollered the DC thus meaning that the initial launch means nothing.
How on earth can you compare the success of the register, an it and science news site, to wikipedia, an online encyclopedia.
Really, one is something a LOT of people need to use frequently (an encyclopedia). The other is a site for purely a thin slice of the general public (an IT themed news site).
The fact you even suggest a comparison between the two suggests you aren't really seeing the bigger picture here.
It's like me saying, look Maggie, the bbc website is much better designed than yours! Its like comparing apples and wombats.
Oh and dont accuse the register of being cross-eyes purely because it has a different opinion to yours. This is life, people don't all have to think the same.
This is the typical pro wiki argument (this has already been pointed out by Andrew Orlowski).
When someone dares to say anything against it the typical response is "ah do something better yourself!!"
The point they are missing is, wikipedia portrays itself as an encyclopedia, most people have a very definite idea of what this. These people dont know how un trustworthy wiki articles can be. They associate the word encyclopedia with Grolier, Encarta or the Britannica. ie: trusted sources that in the majority can be trusted and are verified. You can;t assume that every person that uses the wikipedia is familar with how it works, these people are in a minority. If the majority wikipedias articles don't come from trusted sources or are not verified or contain errors then it SHOULD NOT call itself an encyclopedia.
When I open an encyclopedia its similar to when I open a dictionary, I assume that what I read has been verified numerous times and by respected sources . When I read wikipedia, I take everything with a pinch of salt. I dread all those students citing wikipedia in their essays thinking it is a bona fida source of information.
Well, he's not actually a troll, as has already been pointed out. His article was very valid in every point it made about wikipedia. His point is proven about the "wiki-fiddlers" by all the inflammatory replies he gets on slashdot shouting: "TROLL!". It seems a lot of the people most passionate about wikipedia are also some of the most stubborn, close-minded net users out there, who can't bear to hear anything that would tarnish their baby.
:(
The thing that seems most obvious is that why would these "wiki-fiddlers" get so annoyed if what Andrew was writing wasn't true? They would simply laugh it off, or come up with constructive arguments. But no, they simply shout "TROLL, he doesnt know what hes talking about, he stupid yayayaya".
The truth hurts
Its actually three in a row. IT: Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh
Science: Nano Tech. Spurs Continued Health Concerns
NewsWeek Looks at Search Engine Optimization
"Highly critical"??
If you think about it, it's not really highly critical at all, mainly because the odds are that there will be no programs written that exploit these security flaws. If these were Windows flaws then yes, it would be critical as you could bet a virus would be written within the week that exploited them.
I bet you could leave your OSX system unpatched for years without ever really being at risk.
You insensitive clods! I thought my relationship was meaningful and deep now its just some chemical that will be gone after a year!
-- Virtually Seamless. Loading was streamed during gameplay to allow for huge levels.
-- Only two weapons allowed to held at any one time.
-- First FPS to implement vehicles WELL.
-- Excellent Story, commonly regarded as one of the best ever in an FPS
-- Enemy and Friendly AI considered to be among the best ever
-- The best physics engine ever seen when it was realised.
-- Cooperative Mode, how many other FPS's allow that?
-- Possibly the best soundtrack ever for an FPS
Probably more points more its early and im tired...
Looks like a few million africans are gonna get their first taste of hardcore porn!
Here's to the internet!!
Gamespot officially tells us what we all knew before.
The better your tv, the better your picture...
Thanks for that gamespot!! I was going to use my black and white 50hz 15 inch'er with rf input until I saw this article!
I'm just waiting for all the stories in the American media with headlines such as: "We saved the internet", "Internet kept out of hands of cheese eating surrender monkeys!", etc etc
Seriously, this whole debate was decided by the pressure from big American IT firms and also the furore in the American press about this whole issue. Anyone less well informed than the average geek would think the rest of the world was planning to take the internet, rape it, tie some bricks to its legs and row it over the bridge with the way the press has dealt with this topic.
Another five years till this comes up again.. i'm hoping for a more democratic contest next time.
No, you're wrong. No game on ps2 that has an equivalent on xbox has better graphics than the xbox version. As basically every review of games released on both has said.
Not only that but you state that you played on 1080i on ps2 and 480p on xbox. In case you hadn't realised, this is what's called an unfair test.
I cannot actually believe you are trying to compare graphics between things run at different resolutions. *sigh*
Doom 3 is an Xbox exclusive. What other console has Doom 3??
Xbox is not a competitor to the PC market. It is competing with PS2 and GC. Neither of which have doom 3..
Any notice that when you search for porn on google base it gives one of the results as a link to slashdot? http://base.google.com/base/search?q=porn&authorid =&hl=en
When I was a lad a game was considered advanced if it allowed the text to be in different colours.
Now its all about fancy smancy graphics, ah who needs em.
I actually have two original unopened (still in vacuum plastic wrap) copies of mac marathon that I bought from a mac games shop around five years ago. As Bungie gets more and more famous i'm just figuring these may be worth something.. especially if the halo movie is a big success..
/.'d already by the looks of it
no headphone socket, no vibrate, less disk space than my sony ericcson, lame
I learned Haskell at university and I strongly advise you to avoid it. Its an evil evil language.
:: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b
It reduced most students at my university into gibbering wrecks and is a sure fire way to turn your brain inside out.
Here is the haskell function definition for foldr, this basically had the best programmers I know completely baffled and took me about 3 or 4 hours deep thought to grasp..
foldr
foldr f z [] = z
foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs)
Yeah but that would mean spending the time editing each copy of the screaner they sent out separately in this fashion. Yeah it would probably work but Disney just wants a quick and easy solution.
:(
Incidentally, any up for making bets as to how quickly this Cine program will be reverse engineered and owned? Where's DVD John? Ah crap he's moved to the US
Already.
:(
Ah well, at least I had time to read the first page of the article, shame really as I was looking forward to that second page
Lets see:
Firefox, Opera, Thunderbird, HyperEdit, Fetch, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Contribute, Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Adium, VLC, Chicken of the VNC, Acquisition, WhatSize, Toast, MenuMeters, SnapperHead
hmm I think thats about it..