I've played all of those games on the XBox and the only ones that have been worth my time have been Halo and JSRF and those two are only best by sheer virtue of being XBox only.
Also, for each of the games you mentioned, there are dogs like Blood Wake, and Arctic Thunder or run-of-the-mill fare like Amped and Fuzion Frenzy.
Lastly, define "shown to be best on the XBox" The graphical improvements over the PS2 or the Gamecube are marginal at best.
The Xbox smokes the other systems on paper, but in practice, it comes in at just average if not a bit below that.
As you can see, my young apprentice, your Department of Justice has failed. Now witness the firepower of this FULLY ARMED and OPERATIONAL operating system!
and don't give me the bs about restricting access at work; unless your work necessitates your access, you have no right/entitlement to online access at your jobsite.
Not as easy as you'd think, especially when the biggest offenders are PHBs who will find it much easier to replace you than to curb their own bad habits.
Yes! You're keeping the record companies from making money on their artists, and giving the artists the scraps! You heartless bastards! Think of the children!
He told the US district judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, that the remedies demanded by nine states would set Microsoft's Windows operating system back 10 years.
All jokes about this putting the state-of-the- Windoze-art back to 1962 aside, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Microsoft has become rather complacent with its position as "leader". That complacency has led to some truly shoddy products.
I say knock them back a few pegs, they've got the engineers, they have the technology, they can rebuild it
Make 'em earn thier keep instead of sitting around cashing in on a pretty house built on a termite- infested foundation.
Careful, someone might accuse you of being under the influence of the Reality Distortion Field
Still I agree with you, I don't think it's the economy picking back up. (Actually, it's not so much picked up as bottomed out, but I digress...) Apple's been turning in decent quarterly results since the downturn started. They must be doing something right.
Spring loaded folders open up when you drag a file over them and then close behind you when you drag that file into a sub-folder. No unnecessary windows left open in your wake, less desktop clutter.
Neat little feature. It was introduced in 9 and hasn't yet made its debut in X. Sure you could just as easily use the column view and bypass the need for them entirely, but I'm old and set in my ways...
I do the same thing with my PDA. The point I was making was the fact that if it was just headlines, what's the sense? And hell, even if it was the full stories, reading them off an iPod's display isn't much better than reading them off my phone's display.
Hell, if it's like the DoCoMo phones, the phone display is better.
Good point about the differentiation between 11 and 14 though.
I don't need to start up Classic anymore by default. Photoshop was the last major app I needed OS 9 for. This is what decent number of the hold- outs have been waiting for, I'd bet. (Not all, mind you. I know of a few people who object to OSX on entrenched usability issues.) Now, if they'd just give us spring-loaded folders...
While it does have a decent cool factor, (made even cooler by the fact that it was done by a 11- year-old codegrommit) I've gotta ask how useful this is? I mean, I get headlines on my pager and cellphone as it is, and with those, I can always waste more of my minutes downloading the whole story. This is essentially the same as pulling down avant-go pages to a handheld. Cool yes, but you still need a laptop or desktop to sync it.
Still in all, hacks like this might pave the way for something truly indipendent down the line. (bluetooth hookup using the firewire port?)
>a nice rip-off of everyone else's ideas (can you say Xerox-Parc)
Can you say "Embrace and extend?" Take your time, sound it out if you need to...
>Over priced
The iPod? probably, but hey quality costs.
>flashy with no substance
Define substance. They're fucking computers and mp3 players. If you're looking for substance in a box of parts, you've been using too many controlled substances for your own damn good.
>realy only any good if you can't think for yourself (heard any original fan-boy suff lately?)
Hmm, and your argument is original? Sounds like the same crap Mac bashers have been digging up for years. Ergo, mistar troll, teh kettle si calling, you is black! lololol!!!11
>single purpose (can you say beige typewriter?)
Sure, like you do anything other than play games anyway...
>only admired by the fan boys
Only bashed on by the fanboys of a certain other architecture. Oh look! Check out the Emperor's new flashy threads!
>Back OT, i thought the Mac was already the be-all >& end-all of professional audio? So what has some >thing as irrevant (read: anything wintel is >irrevant) as Cubase got to do with anything?
Did you bother to follow the link at all? Do you know anything about Cubase? VST's been running on Macs for a while now. But then, you're a troll, your grasp of the facts beyond your particular agenda are tenuous at best.
No, it's not like you insulted my mother, it's more like ya pissed in my cheerios. =)
I use the tools that are right for the job as well. Fortunately, for a good chunk of the stuff I do, those tools have mostly been Macs. Don't get me wrong, Macs aren't all I use either, I've got multiple 'doze and *nix boxen sitting in my apartment raising the ambient temperature and serving all sorts of functions, from firewalls to test environments.
As far as animated menus and anti-aliased text are concerned I've long since killed all of that stuff. Version Tracker's got a bunch of third party stuff to reduce the glossy overhead.
Lastly, Maya on the dual GHz is pretty snappy, I do have problems running it on the TiBook though, so you do have a point there.
Ah, the dreaded "z" word. I was waiting for that one...
Well, while we're tossing names out, you sir, are a shortsighted cheapskate who can't see beyond the intial cost outlay.
I've used a lot of discreet products, never liked any of them as much as the "ameteur" products you proclaimed Adobe's to be or FCP.
And no, I prefer Maya on the PC as well. I just threw it out in response to your shortsighted, "There's nothing good on a Mac" rant. Heh, and you call me a zealot. Take a look in the mirror pal.
You seem to miss the point. (Color me surprised) It has less to do with speed and more to do with useability. Od did that whole piece about a system not getting in your way just completely pass over your head?
You won't ever get it though, because for you it's all about the Benjamins. Look at all the money you saved! Now go use it to buy back the time you spent tweaking your machine to get all your widgets to work properly. I'll be over here getting work done.
You can spout all the quantitative "facts" you want about ghz or whatever, still don't change the fact that I get more done on the clean FCP interface than I would on Any PC competitor.
And I've used 3DSMax since 2.0. I still prefer Maya on the Mac.
Maybe, maybe not. But I know running Final Cut Pro on my dual GHz beats the hell out of running Premiere on my Athlon XP 1800+ (2k, as XP blows goats)
It's not about how fast your computer is, it's about how little it gets in the way of your doing what you want to do. And sorry, 'doze just don't cut it in that department.
And really, it's not all that hard to throw in a couple of 100 gig drives into the G4, luckily, my raid is of the Firewire variety, and rather expandable so I don't have to.
would you still shell out for an Apple-built PowerPC?
In as few words as possible: Hell yes.
Two reasons, My Mac hardware, for the most part has been flawless, the few times I have needed to have one of my Macs fixed, (My Tibook, such is the price of being the first one on your block with brand new hardware) Apple bent over backwards to make sure I was satisfied with the repairs. The laptop was out of my hands for less than 48 hours.
Before you accuse me of any bias, I've built my own Wintel and Linux boxen and even have a Sparc station running at home. I've seen all kinds of configs and worked with a bunch of hardware from different OEMs. None has come close to the Apple experience.
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Why yes, yes you can
I've seen some other success stories here and there.
Do the google to learn more.
Don't mention that Air-port thing; no one bothered with that.
Yeah, no one but Dell, Microsoft,Compaq,
I think you get the picture...
Gotta love it when the AC trolls post drivel...
Heh, beats the IT people who buy stuff, [teenage whine] "cause all the other IT managers are buying them!" [/teenage whine]
I suupose if all the other IT managers jumped off a bridge...
=)
There's nothing to keep you from setting it to the
original 1152x768 if you don't like the newer res.
Surely you jest!
I've played all of those games on the XBox and the
only ones that have been worth my time have been
Halo and JSRF and those two are only best by sheer
virtue of being XBox only.
Also, for each of the games you mentioned, there
are dogs like Blood Wake, and Arctic Thunder
or run-of-the-mill fare like Amped and Fuzion
Frenzy.
Lastly, define "shown to be best on the XBox" The
graphical improvements over the PS2 or the Gamecube
are marginal at best.
The Xbox smokes the other systems on paper, but in
practice, it comes in at just average if not a bit
below that.
As you can see, my young apprentice, your Department of Justice has failed. Now witness the firepower of this FULLY ARMED and OPERATIONAL operating system!
and don't give me the bs about restricting access at work; unless your work necessitates your access, you have no right/entitlement to online access at your jobsite.
Not as easy as you'd think, especially when the
biggest offenders are PHBs who will find it much
easier to replace you than to curb their own bad
habits.
Clusters of wannabe Portman teenager girls, worry about that for a second.
Is that with or without the hot grits?
Yes! You're keeping the record companies from making
:P
money on their artists, and giving the artists the
scraps! You heartless bastards! Think of the children!
/sarcasm
He told the US district judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, that the remedies demanded by nine states would set Microsoft's Windows operating system back 10 years.
All jokes about this putting the state-of-the-
Windoze-art back to 1962 aside, this is not
necessarily a bad thing. Microsoft has become rather
complacent with its position as "leader". That
complacency has led to some truly shoddy products.
I say knock them back a few pegs, they've got the
engineers, they have the technology, they can
rebuild it
Make 'em earn thier keep instead of sitting around
cashing in on a pretty house built on a termite-
infested foundation.
Careful, someone might accuse you of being under the
influence of the Reality Distortion Field
Still I agree with you, I don't think it's the
economy picking back up. (Actually, it's not so
much picked up as bottomed out, but I digress...)
Apple's been turning in decent quarterly results
since the downturn started. They must be doing
something right.
Cruel? Yes. True? Hardly. I claim Shenanigans on you, sir!
Compared to the PC, it's a higher ratio? Really?
Have you seen the volume of crappy PC games to
crappy Mac ones? Ratios work both ways.
I'll take a Marathon or an EV
over Mortyr pretty much any day
of the week.
That's not to say all PC games are bad, Hell I
just finished Jedi Knight II and it rocked.
Spring loaded folders open up when you drag a file
over them and then close behind you when you drag
that file into a sub-folder. No unnecessary windows
left open in your wake, less desktop clutter.
Neat little feature. It was introduced in 9 and
hasn't yet made its debut in X. Sure you could just
as easily use the column view and bypass the need
for them entirely, but I'm old and set in my ways...
I do the same thing with my PDA. The point I was
making was the fact that if it was just headlines,
what's the sense? And hell, even if it was the full
stories, reading them off an iPod's display isn't
much better than reading them off my phone's display.
Hell, if it's like the DoCoMo phones, the phone
display is better.
Good point about the differentiation between 11
and 14 though.
I don't need to start up Classic anymore by
default. Photoshop was the last major app I needed
OS 9 for. This is what decent number of the hold-
outs have been waiting for, I'd bet. (Not all,
mind you. I know of a few people who object to OSX
on entrenched usability issues.) Now, if they'd
just give us spring-loaded folders...
While it does have a decent cool factor, (made
even cooler by the fact that it was done by a 11-
year-old codegrommit) I've gotta ask how useful
this is? I mean, I get headlines on my pager and
cellphone as it is, and with those, I can always
waste more of my minutes downloading the whole
story. This is essentially the same as pulling
down avant-go pages to a handheld. Cool yes, but
you still need a laptop or desktop to sync it.
Still in all, hacks like this might pave the way
for something truly indipendent down the line.
(bluetooth hookup using the firewire port?)
Karma be damned, but I'm feeding the troll...
>I think it's apt for the mac...
Do tell...
>a nice rip-off of everyone else's ideas (can you say Xerox-Parc)
Can you say "Embrace and extend?" Take your time,
sound it out if you need to...
>Over priced
The iPod? probably, but hey quality costs.
>flashy with no substance
Define substance. They're fucking computers and
mp3 players. If you're looking for substance in a
box of parts, you've been using too many controlled
substances for your own damn good.
>realy only any good if you can't think for yourself (heard any original fan-boy suff lately?)
Hmm, and your argument is original? Sounds like
the same crap Mac bashers have been digging up
for years. Ergo, mistar troll, teh kettle si calling,
you is black! lololol!!!11
>single purpose (can you say beige typewriter?)
Sure, like you do anything other than play games
anyway...
>only admired by the fan boys
Only bashed on by the fanboys of a certain other
architecture. Oh look! Check out the Emperor's
new flashy threads!
>Back OT, i thought the Mac was already the be-all
>& end-all of professional audio? So what has some >thing as irrevant (read: anything wintel is
>irrevant) as Cubase got to do with anything?
Did you bother to follow the link at all? Do you
know anything about Cubase? VST's been running on
Macs for a while now. But then, you're a troll,
your grasp of the facts beyond your particular
agenda are tenuous at best.
No, it's not like you insulted my mother, it's
more like ya pissed in my cheerios. =)
I use the tools that are right for the job as well.
Fortunately, for a good chunk of the stuff I do,
those tools have mostly been Macs. Don't get me
wrong, Macs aren't all I use either, I've got
multiple 'doze and *nix boxen sitting in my
apartment raising the ambient temperature and
serving all sorts of functions, from firewalls to
test environments.
As far as animated menus and anti-aliased text are
concerned I've long since killed all of that stuff.
Version Tracker's got a bunch of third
party stuff to reduce the glossy overhead.
Lastly, Maya on the dual GHz is pretty snappy, I
do have problems running it on the TiBook though,
so you do have a point there.
Ah, the dreaded "z" word. I was waiting for that
one...
Well, while we're tossing names out, you sir, are
a shortsighted cheapskate who can't see beyond the
intial cost outlay.
I've used a lot of discreet products, never liked
any of them as much as the "ameteur" products you
proclaimed Adobe's to be or FCP.
And no, I prefer Maya on the PC as well. I just
threw it out in response to your shortsighted,
"There's nothing good on a Mac" rant. Heh, and
you call me a zealot. Take a look in the
mirror pal.
You seem to miss the point. (Color me surprised)
It has less to do with speed and more to do with
useability. Od did that whole piece about a system
not getting in your way just completely pass over
your head?
You won't ever get it though, because for you it's
all about the Benjamins. Look at all the money you
saved! Now go use it to buy back the time you
spent tweaking your machine to get all your widgets
to work properly. I'll be over here getting work
done.
You can spout all the quantitative "facts" you
want about ghz or whatever, still don't change
the fact that I get more done on the clean FCP
interface than I would on Any PC competitor.
And I've used 3DSMax since 2.0. I still prefer
Maya on the Mac.
Maybe, maybe not. But I know running Final Cut Pro
on my dual GHz beats the hell out of running Premiere
on my Athlon XP 1800+ (2k, as XP blows goats)
It's not about how fast your computer is, it's
about how little it gets in the way of your doing
what you want to do. And sorry, 'doze just don't
cut it in that department.
And really, it's not all that hard to throw in a
couple of 100 gig drives into the G4, luckily, my
raid is of the Firewire variety, and rather expandable
so I don't have to.
As has been mentioned by other posters, there's a
Palm Desktop 4.0 beta out for OSX.
I sync my T615c via IR twice a day with no problems.
Who said anything about using it with a PC?
I'm pluggin' this baby into my dual Ghz.
would you still shell out for an Apple-built PowerPC?
In as few words as possible: Hell yes.
Two reasons, My Mac hardware, for the most part has
been flawless, the few times I have needed to have
one of my Macs fixed, (My Tibook, such is the price
of being the first one on your block with brand new
hardware) Apple bent over backwards to make
sure I was satisfied with the repairs. The laptop
was out of my hands for less than 48 hours.
Before you accuse me of any bias, I've built my
own Wintel and Linux boxen and even have a Sparc
station running at home. I've seen all kinds of
configs and worked with a bunch of hardware from
different OEMs. None has come close to the Apple
experience.
If you can actually get Any PCI cards in an
iMac, you're too far gone for reading the box anyway,
seeing as there're no expansion slots in the thing.