I haven't played Gran Turismo myself -- I'm not a big racing fan -- but what is it that sets it apart from other racing games?
Personally I'd rather race around Liberty City or Vice City from the Gran Theft Auto games. I like the sense of freedom (and getting away from the cops) rather than the closed tracks of racing games. But what is it about the Gran Turismo series that's so great? All racing games are pretty much alike in my (admittedly somewhat ignorant) opinion.
looks to me like a psychologically tuned meme designed to undermine Linux users' pride in their choices...
You think Microsoft's strategy is to sow doubt in the minds of Slashdot readers? I really doubt MS is quite that desperate.
And you wanna hear a psychologically tuned meme to sway slashdotters to OS X? Okay, here's one:
"I have never once had to edit a config file, look at a command line window (unless I wanted to) or search the Net for drivers."
As for your question, AllNines, you outta at least wait til OS X 10.4 comes out if only to avoid the cost of upgrading the OS should you buy a Mac before it's released.
It seems unlikely that the next round of hardware upgrades make a huge difference in terms of performance (In my case, I'm running an almost two year old 1GHz G4 Powerbook with 512MB of RAM and I have no trouble running OS X 10.3, Office, Safari, iTunes, etc.) so as soon as Macs start shipping with Tiger pre-installed, go get one. You won't regret the switch!
Yeah, that's true. But I figured with watching a movie on my Powerbook, bringing a book or two along and listening to my iPod I might actually be able to have a pleasant flight. As it is, there's always the GBA emulator I've got installed to keep me busy.
Drop me a line at slashtemp@mac.com and I'll email you with some info about teaching over here when I get a chance. It's a.Mac temp account because I'd rather not share my real email adress with any email harvesters lurking on slashdot.
I work as an English teacher just over the border from Tokyo in Chiba. I'm about a 20 minute train ride from Akihabara. This morning one of our teachers walked in to the office carrying a PSP and Ridge Racer. Dunno what time he lined up, but he was at work at 11. I had a go at it and I gotta say -- those graphics are nice. The screen is bloody massive for a portable. It's got a nice shiny front and just looks good overall. The screen real estate alone is a big draw and some might say it's heavy, but I didn't really notice. I don't think weight will be a big problem.
Having said that, it's wee bit expensive for my taste (if you get the value pack with the memory card). The exposed screen seems risky and after a few of us got our hands on the thing it had quite a few smudgy fingerprints on it, ruining the shiny front. And I'm skeptical of the little joysticky button thingy in the corner(and why is there only one? Shouldn't there be two for FPS games?) Dunno about the batteries -- he had it pluged in and charging at work, so I sat by the outlet and played it -- though given the battery life estimates, I don't think I'd buy one.
I'm more of a Nintendo kinda guy, anyway, and though I haven't tried the DS yet I'm inclined to buy it instead, given the possibilities for FPS and RTS games with the touchscreen and despite the less impressive graphics. Still, I'll wait and see what games come out before I buy anything. (But with a 12 hour plane ride back to Canada for Christmas next week, it sure would be nice to have either the PSP or the DS).
With Metroid Prime Hunters I'm really considering getting one of these. I plan to travel around a lot in the next couple of years, and my Gamecube ain't portable and my Powerbook ain't exactly... er, powerful.
So the DS looks great. Portable FPS's and stylus-driven RTS games has just about sold me. There's one small problem: Nintendo is the home of cartoony, kid-friendly games.
I hear good things about Advance Wars, but I'd also like to see something without manga-looking characters. Gimme somehing like Command & Conquer or Age of Empires! Metroid Prime Hunters is a little more up my alley but I have a bad feeling other DS FPS games we see are likely to involve running around as Mario, chucking marshmellows and Kirby and Yoshi in the land of ice cream sundaes. I wanna see some blood! Gimme some PC-calibre FPS's for the DS!
Whenever I read something about DNF it reminds me of Party members in Orwell's 1984. The telescreen announces a 24% increase in the production of razors in the latest five-year plan and the drab, blue overall-clad party members believe every word of it while shaving with dull slivers of iron.
I imagine 3D Realms employees sitting at their PII 300Mhz workstations (they've been working on the same bloody game for 7 years, after all) when Broussard runs out and announces, "Comrades! Comrades! We've just updated the FAQ! We've just come one step closer to releasing the game!" They all stand up and chant "When It's Done! When It's Done!" And remember that Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, and Game Development Cycles are Ten Years Long.
How do Xserves measure up in price to comparable x86 Windows servers? I know Apple workstations (I don't want to call them PCs and get in trouble!) like PowerMacs or iMacs cost more than most Dells or Gateways, are Apple's Xserves in a similar position to Compaq, HP, etc, servers?
Jesus, moderators, look at the fucking link before you mod something up. It's +1 Funny, not +1 Informative. Are we Slashdotters so impatient that we've gone from RTFA to CTFL (Check the Fucking Link)?
All governments restrict liberty in the name of security -- its the most fundamental raison d'etre of the state itself in the Western liberal tradition going back to Ancient Greece and, more recently, Thomas Hobbes.
Are there no police in Sweden, or other socialist countries? What about the Soviet Union -- you know, that police state?
I'm asking this to provoke some answers rather than trying to be a troll, but why would someone want to use a linux distro on a mac in the age of OS X?
Having read the article, I can't find anything that leads me to believe that Ms. O'Connor Kelly is guilty of anything othere than being employed by a company that was guilty of privacy abuses. It was stated, in fact, that she came on-board with DoubleClick after the investigation, and was responsible for cleaning up the company's act. How utterly reprehensible!:)
Whoa, whoa - you read the article? I'm sorry, you must be new around here.
On Slashdot you're supposed to quickly scan the writeup and post a completely uninformed comment as quickly as possible. At least, this seems to be the system the editors encourage.
You seem to have read the article and thought things through before posting. Admirable, but completely out of place around here.
If the above sounds like I'm trolling, well, it is. I'm tired, and I'm sure a lot of other people are too, of the editors throwing whatever comes their way on the front page without first checking to see if the story's been discussed recently or making sure the writeup accurately describes the link. This is typically sloppy editing from the Slashdot crew.
The writeup may have left chrisd "speechless", but the Washington Post article itself is a different story.
I'll be moving to Japan -- probably Tokyo -- in the fall and will also be looking for a broadband connection. What are the services like over there? Any good (English) websites on ISPs in Japan someone can recommend?
I don't know if this matters or not, but I'll probably be using a Mac laptop by then. Will that be a problem over there in terms of internet access?
On a related note, does anyone know about what wireless coverage is like in Tokyo? I wonder if it would be worth getting an AirPort card.
Yeah, it's made the list before, but it deserves to be on there again. We've been waiting for this game since:
- Clinton was president.
- The Spice Girls were popular.
- Princess Diana was alive.
- Tony Soprano was a twinkle in David Chase's eye.
- Yahoo was a good search engine.
- The X-Files was on, and it was worth watching.
It's been a long, long time since Duke Nukem Forever was announced. 3DRealms should get an award for most vapourous software ever.
Does anyone know if deregulation of the airwaves, and radio station mergers have happened in Canada as well? I think I heard something about a lot of radio stations being bought up by big (Canadian-based, I assume) corporations similar to what has happened in the US. All I know is that what was my favourite radio station as a teenager a few years ago (Edge102 in Toronto) sounds really, really bland to me these days. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe it's just the way the music scene is these days(Creed, Nickelback) but it seems like Edge102 isn't playing the variety they used to. Can any Canadian slashdotters confirm this?
I went and saw Black Hawk Down last week. It's a solid war flick that deserves a viewing. What is significant is that it's a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but there's no Ben Affleck, no Aerosmith love ballads, and no American flag waving every 30 seconds. Truly a first in a Bruckheimer film. Bravo, Ridley Scott!
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Trying not to be the arrogant Mac user my friends kid me about being (at least I think they're kidding), I've gotta ask:
Is Mac OS X at risk to these kinds of attacks?
What the writeup said: "for me [it] was one of the worst operating system experiences that I've ever encountered."
What the article said: "Installing Vista Beta 2, for me was one of the worst operating system experiences that I've ever encountered."
Nice FUD, guys.
hoser
P.S. I'm posting this from my MacBook Pro, so it ain't like I'm a Windows fanboy or anything. (Or, in other words, I'm not Paul Thurrott)
Re-read his first line: The Mac mentality can be harmful.
Now re-read his post.
Does that make more sense now?
Seriously, though.
I haven't played Gran Turismo myself -- I'm not a big racing fan -- but what is it that sets it apart from other racing games?
Personally I'd rather race around Liberty City or Vice City from the Gran Theft Auto games. I like the sense of freedom (and getting away from the cops) rather than the closed tracks of racing games. But what is it about the Gran Turismo series that's so great? All racing games are pretty much alike in my (admittedly somewhat ignorant) opinion.
looks to me like a psychologically tuned meme designed to undermine Linux users' pride in their choices...
You think Microsoft's strategy is to sow doubt in the minds of Slashdot readers? I really doubt MS is quite that desperate.
And you wanna hear a psychologically tuned meme to sway slashdotters to OS X? Okay, here's one:
"I have never once had to edit a config file, look at a command line window (unless I wanted to) or search the Net for drivers."
As for your question, AllNines, you outta at least wait til OS X 10.4 comes out if only to avoid the cost of upgrading the OS should you buy a Mac before it's released.
It seems unlikely that the next round of hardware upgrades make a huge difference in terms of performance (In my case, I'm running an almost two year old 1GHz G4 Powerbook with 512MB of RAM and I have no trouble running OS X 10.3, Office, Safari, iTunes, etc.) so as soon as Macs start shipping with Tiger pre-installed, go get one. You won't regret the switch!
Yeah, that's true. But I figured with watching a movie on my Powerbook, bringing a book or two along and listening to my iPod I might actually be able to have a pleasant flight. As it is, there's always the GBA emulator I've got installed to keep me busy.
Drop me a line at slashtemp@mac.com and I'll email you with some info about teaching over here when I get a chance. It's a .Mac temp account because I'd rather not share my real email adress with any email harvesters lurking on slashdot.
I work as an English teacher just over the border from Tokyo in Chiba. I'm about a 20 minute train ride from Akihabara. This morning one of our teachers walked in to the office carrying a PSP and Ridge Racer. Dunno what time he lined up, but he was at work at 11. I had a go at it and I gotta say -- those graphics are nice. The screen is bloody massive for a portable. It's got a nice shiny front and just looks good overall. The screen real estate alone is a big draw and some might say it's heavy, but I didn't really notice. I don't think weight will be a big problem.
Having said that, it's wee bit expensive for my taste (if you get the value pack with the memory card). The exposed screen seems risky and after a few of us got our hands on the thing it had quite a few smudgy fingerprints on it, ruining the shiny front. And I'm skeptical of the little joysticky button thingy in the corner(and why is there only one? Shouldn't there be two for FPS games?) Dunno about the batteries -- he had it pluged in and charging at work, so I sat by the outlet and played it -- though given the battery life estimates, I don't think I'd buy one.
I'm more of a Nintendo kinda guy, anyway, and though I haven't tried the DS yet I'm inclined to buy it instead, given the possibilities for FPS and RTS games with the touchscreen and despite the less impressive graphics. Still, I'll wait and see what games come out before I buy anything. (But with a 12 hour plane ride back to Canada for Christmas next week, it sure would be nice to have either the PSP or the DS).
Does this mean we can expect to see Roger Moore playing Indy's father in Indiana Jones V?
With Metroid Prime Hunters I'm really considering getting one of these. I plan to travel around a lot in the next couple of years, and my Gamecube ain't portable and my Powerbook ain't exactly... er, powerful.
So the DS looks great. Portable FPS's and stylus-driven RTS games has just about sold me. There's one small problem: Nintendo is the home of cartoony, kid-friendly games.
I hear good things about Advance Wars, but I'd also like to see something without manga-looking characters. Gimme somehing like Command & Conquer or Age of Empires! Metroid Prime Hunters is a little more up my alley but I have a bad feeling other DS FPS games we see are likely to involve running around as Mario, chucking marshmellows and Kirby and Yoshi in the land of ice cream sundaes. I wanna see some blood! Gimme some PC-calibre FPS's for the DS!
I'll happily see Resident Evil 4 go to the PlayStation IF we see Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas come to the GameCube. Sounds fair, doesn't it?
If TPTB hadn't screwed up the whole Star Trek franchise, I'd still think that that phrase Picard utters was the pearl of the whole thing.
Can someone tell me what "TPTB" stands for? Googling it didn't give me much.
TIA
If you wanna get the real lowdown on the Super-Friends go to http://www.seanbaby.com/super.htm
Whenever I read something about DNF it reminds me of Party members in Orwell's 1984. The telescreen announces a 24% increase in the production of razors in the latest five-year plan and the drab, blue overall-clad party members believe every word of it while shaving with dull slivers of iron.
I imagine 3D Realms employees sitting at their PII 300Mhz workstations (they've been working on the same bloody game for 7 years, after all) when Broussard runs out and announces, "Comrades! Comrades! We've just updated the FAQ! We've just come one step closer to releasing the game!" They all stand up and chant "When It's Done! When It's Done!" And remember that Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, and Game Development Cycles are Ten Years Long.
Kyu-nicks? or Kyu-Enn-Eks?
How do Xserves measure up in price to comparable x86 Windows servers? I know Apple workstations (I don't want to call them PCs and get in trouble!) like PowerMacs or iMacs cost more than most Dells or Gateways, are Apple's Xserves in a similar position to Compaq, HP, etc, servers?
Jesus, moderators, look at the fucking link before you mod something up. It's +1 Funny, not +1 Informative. Are we Slashdotters so impatient that we've gone from RTFA to CTFL (Check the Fucking Link)?
This is a drastic oversimplification.
All governments restrict liberty in the name of security -- its the most fundamental raison d'etre of the state itself in the Western liberal tradition going back to Ancient Greece and, more recently, Thomas Hobbes.
Are there no police in Sweden, or other socialist countries? What about the Soviet
Union -- you know, that police state?
I'm asking this to provoke some answers rather than trying to be a troll, but why would someone want to use a linux distro on a mac in the age of OS X?
Having read the article, I can't find anything that leads me to believe that Ms. O'Connor Kelly is guilty of anything othere than being employed by a company that was guilty of privacy abuses. It was stated, in fact, that she came on-board with DoubleClick after the investigation, and was responsible for cleaning up the company's act. How utterly reprehensible! :)
Whoa, whoa - you read the article? I'm sorry, you must be new around here.
On Slashdot you're supposed to quickly scan the writeup and post a completely uninformed comment as quickly as possible. At least, this seems to be the system the editors encourage.
You seem to have read the article and thought things through before posting. Admirable, but completely out of place around here. If the above sounds like I'm trolling, well, it is. I'm tired, and I'm sure a lot of other people are too, of the editors throwing whatever comes their way on the front page without first checking to see if the story's been discussed recently or making sure the writeup accurately describes the link. This is typically sloppy editing from the Slashdot crew.
The writeup may have left chrisd "speechless", but the Washington Post article itself is a different story.
I'll be moving to Japan -- probably Tokyo -- in the fall and will also be looking for a broadband connection. What are the services like over there? Any good (English) websites on ISPs in Japan someone can recommend?
I don't know if this matters or not, but I'll probably be using a Mac laptop by then. Will that be a problem over there in terms of internet access?
On a related note, does anyone know about what wireless coverage is like in Tokyo? I wonder if it would be worth getting an AirPort card.
Anyone know when it'll be shown in Canada? We have a channel called Bravo up here, but it's not the same one as Americans get.
Yeah, it's made the list before, but it deserves to be on there again. We've been waiting for this game since:
- Clinton was president.
- The Spice Girls were popular.
- Princess Diana was alive.
- Tony Soprano was a twinkle in David Chase's eye.
- Yahoo was a good search engine.
- The X-Files was on, and it was worth watching.
It's been a long, long time since Duke Nukem Forever was announced. 3DRealms should get an award for most vapourous software ever.
Does anyone know if deregulation of the airwaves, and radio station mergers have happened in Canada as well? I think I heard something about a lot of radio stations being bought up by big (Canadian-based, I assume) corporations similar to what has happened in the US. All I know is that what was my favourite radio station as a teenager a few years ago (Edge102 in Toronto) sounds really, really bland to me these days. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe it's just the way the music scene is these days(Creed, Nickelback) but it seems like Edge102 isn't playing the variety they used to. Can any Canadian slashdotters confirm this?
I went and saw Black Hawk Down last week. It's a solid war flick that deserves a viewing.
What is significant is that it's a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but there's no Ben Affleck, no Aerosmith love ballads, and no American flag waving every 30 seconds. Truly a first in a Bruckheimer film. Bravo, Ridley Scott!