I love when non-Mac users, or even sometimes people who claim to be Mac users, review a copy of MacOS and "find" all kinds of new features that have been there for ages. My personal favorite was the journalist reviewing System 9 who found out that you could hold Option when opening a folder to automatically close its parent folder... and then claimed it was a new feature! (It's been in MacOS since at least version 7, and probably earlier.)
What they never mention is features that Apple *removed* from the OS and has no intention of bringing back. Like tabbed folders, for instance... damn you, Apple! GIVE ME BACK MY TABBED FOLDERS YOU ASSHOLES!!!... sorry. I liked those a lot.
I proposed this idea to a few PC games company a few years ago, and none of them were interested at all. It really bothers me to have to change my key mappings on EVERY GODDAMN GAME when I always change it to the exact same thing. Anyway, I'm glad somebody's finally implementing the idea, even if I'm not making any money with it.
If you have to buy Cedega, in what way do they work "out of the box?" I'm pretty sure there aren't any Linux distributions that have Cedega "in the box" when you download/purchase them.
GNOME and KDE are far more different than any combination of kernel features. IMO, the entire process is screwed up... GNOME has pretty much everything they need to run a distro, but they don't... instead, they have three dozen other distros that happen to use the exact same software GNOME's been developing all this time. Ditto with KDE.
Why don't we just have two distros, GNOME and KDE, compatible with each other (by installing the other's libraries), and both running on the Linux kernel? "Desktop Environment" = "Distro" makes a hell of a lot more sense to me, especially since the "desktop environment" is already something like 90% of the way to BEING a distro.
As long as I never take it to work, or use it in the library, or do anything outside of my own house with the drive and flash drive... yeah, then that's a solution. However, I need it to *work* when I take it to work, or to a buddy's house, and Fat32 is the only way to do that.
Believe me, I went through all the options before formatting that drive. (And not just because Windows makes you do all kinds of contortions to format a 200 GB drive as Fat32.)
I count... 5 games that you can also play on Windows (Frozen Bubble is just a port of Bust-A-Move, a game available on pretty much every platform.) I haven't played Tribal Trouble, Gish, or Tuxracer, mainly because when I last tried Linux, Ubuntu didn't have Tribal Trouble in its repository, Gish and Tuxracer didn't run, or didn't run worth crap.
The other problem is that if the disk is left in an unstable state, other computers won't be able to read the contents. Of course you could put that on the warning dialog also...
As for journalled filesystems, it's a great idea, but I need my memory key to be read on MacOS X, Linux, and Windows... and right now, Fat32 is the only file system that fits the bill. (I also had to format a 200 MB external USB2 drive as Fat32 for the same reason... why the hell isn't there a modern filesystem that ALL OSes support?)
The story's about cancelled games. Duke Nukem Forever is still in active development, at least according to the studio. Since it hasn't been officially cancelled, it doesn't appear on the list.
The article's about cancelled games, not games that were scaled back before release. It's kind of annoying that a lost of posters here haven't even read the summary of the article before posting...
I notice the game is for Xbox... have you tried Ninja Gaiden? I've never played Last Ninja, so I don't know how close it is, but if you're looking for ninja action on Xbox, Ninja Gaiden's where it's at right now. (It even has two expansion packs, called Hurricane Packs, downloadable over Live.) Give it a try.
Oh, but it's hard... very very hard. Expect to replay boss battles over and over and over and over until you figure out the strategy to beat them, then 4-5 more times to actually pull it off.
which is approximately $610 in today's dollars, making it about the same as the Xbox 360.
Stop posting this misinformation. The suggested retail price of the most expensive Xbox 360 package is $399.99, despite what the Microsoft-hating hordes on this site want you to believe. It doesn't cost $610.
The C-64 has a cartridge port, for instantly loading applications. (Like, hmm, games.)
The C-64 has 8 hardware sprites.
The C-64 has 4 (I believe) sound channels.
The C-64 has enough horsepower for pixel-perfect ports of popular games at the time, like Zaxxon, Pac-Man, Q-Bert, etc.
The C-64 is capable of plugging into a TV set and using it as a monitor.
The C-64 has a 320x240 resolution screen with 16 colors.
If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Face it, the Commodore 64 is a video game console that also happens to be able to run some non-game applications.
If it were designed as a computer first, it would have loaded an OS off disk like a IBM PC, it would have emphasized text on the display instead of graphics (probably monochrome, but relatively high-res) like a PC, it would have had one sound channel to save costs for things that a computer user at the time wouldn't need, it wouldn't have had joystick ports or a cartridge slot.
Are you joking? Gmail lacks some pretty fundamental features... for instance, you can't have it read mail from a POP3 server (although it can serve as a POP3 server.) You can't connect to it using IMAP. When it came out, you couldn't connect to it using a web browser that didn't support Javascript, and Safari support (the default browser for millions of Mac users) was flakey. Hell, you can't even set up a group of contacts and email them all at once, for God's sake... Gmail wasn't "clearly the obvious leader" when it came out, and I wouldn't even say it is now... it's a lot closer, but I just can call something lacking contact groups a "leader."
You recall incorrectly. Washington gas stations are as automated as the gas stations in any other state... you're probably thinking of Oregon, which has strange and inscrutable laws about pumping gas. (Fortunately, if you fill up right before leaving WA, and drive straight south on I5, you can sometimes make it through the state without having to deal with their gas pumps. Offer valid only in economy cars.
That makes about as much sense. In any case, the original poster (Cortana) didn't provide summary of what those commands did, or at least are supposed to do, is because they wanted to lord their Unix knowledge over everybody else. All hail the high priesthood of technology! Otherwise, they would have given a reply that was useful including what the commands do and how they improve GIMP's functioning. Or maybe he was just a jerk, whatever.
Except that there's a Windows port of GIMP, and it's stupid to tell Windows users that their program, compiled specifically for Windows, requires a feature not available in Windows to work well. That's like the very definition of "half-assed port." (Plus, us Mac users don't have multiple desktops, either, and we have a GIMP port... even if you don't care about the Windows users, that's an issue.)
Part of the reason it worked my arse! That only gets in the way of it working. Why would you have multiple windows if you want them all to behave as a single one? You might as well just have a single window.
Did you ever use MacOS Classic? Macintosh was renowned for its great usability long before OS X came onto the scene and, yes, believe it or not: It worked very well. In fact, I kind of miss it since Apple went another direction in OS X.
It used to be the way things were done back in MacOS Classic (versions 7-9 or so), but it's not so much in OS X. Although a few apps still work that way, the vast majority have become more "Windows-like," putting all the functionality in a single window ala iTunes or XCode.
Back when they started designing GIMP, assuming it was designed and didn't just congeal, that would have been how the majority of Mac applications worked.
Part of the reason the palette system works in MacOS Classic is that when you bring an application to the front in Classic, you bring *all* its windows to the front, not just the one you clicked on. Applications were in "layers." This means you'd never have a situation where you could see your image, but not see your toolbar. That's changed in OS X, and it never existed in Linux or Windows.
So, at best, GIMP is trying to be like a MacOS Classic application and failing because none of the newest window managers treat application windows as "layers." (You can get this effect in OS X by clicking the icon on the Dock instead of the window to bring things forward, though.)
Hey, guess what... I like the new Gnome. I like their file browser better than any other available right now... they're the last game left in town with spatial browsing. If you don't like it, use something else. There are craploads of OSes with browser-based file browsing, and only one with spatial.
My big gripe about GIMP right now is that after you run "Script-fu" it doesn't put things back how they were... some of the scripts might add layers, some might leave a selection (different than the original selection) behind, etc. It's annoying as hell. "Script-fu" items should run the same as plug-ins in Photoshop... it does its work, it leaves the work area *the exact same* as it found it, and you can undo the whole she-bang with a single selection of Edit->Undo.
Well, since you didn't bother doing ANY goddamned research at all, you ended up posting something that was not only entirely wrong (unless Microsoft offshores to France-- somehow I doubt that!) and ended up being nothing but the worst and most blatant flamebait ever posted as an article on this site. Stop trying to defend yourself, Vicissidude. Like I said before, we've all read your summary, we know what you were trying to do. Get the hell off this site and never submit an article again.
Oh please. Now you're going to say your submission was some kind of noble effort to warn companies to make sure immunizations are in order before sending employees to foreign countries? We *READ THE SUMMARY* buddy, we know what you typed... don't backpedal and think people on this board are so stupid that we'll buy it.
Besides, he went to France. FRANCE! Who thinks of immunizations before going to France? It's not the Congo or something, it's FRANCE!
But it all sums up to this: You wrote, what is in all possibility, the stupidest Microsoft-bashing ever seen. By far.
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Somebody has to, and I doubt Microsoft would have listened to me any more than the game companies did. Who should I have talked to?
I love when non-Mac users, or even sometimes people who claim to be Mac users, review a copy of MacOS and "find" all kinds of new features that have been there for ages. My personal favorite was the journalist reviewing System 9 who found out that you could hold Option when opening a folder to automatically close its parent folder... and then claimed it was a new feature! (It's been in MacOS since at least version 7, and probably earlier.)
... sorry. I liked those a lot.
What they never mention is features that Apple *removed* from the OS and has no intention of bringing back. Like tabbed folders, for instance... damn you, Apple! GIVE ME BACK MY TABBED FOLDERS YOU ASSHOLES!!!
I proposed this idea to a few PC games company a few years ago, and none of them were interested at all. It really bothers me to have to change my key mappings on EVERY GODDAMN GAME when I always change it to the exact same thing. Anyway, I'm glad somebody's finally implementing the idea, even if I'm not making any money with it.
If you have to buy Cedega, in what way do they work "out of the box?" I'm pretty sure there aren't any Linux distributions that have Cedega "in the box" when you download/purchase them.
GNOME and KDE are far more different than any combination of kernel features. IMO, the entire process is screwed up... GNOME has pretty much everything they need to run a distro, but they don't... instead, they have three dozen other distros that happen to use the exact same software GNOME's been developing all this time. Ditto with KDE.
Why don't we just have two distros, GNOME and KDE, compatible with each other (by installing the other's libraries), and both running on the Linux kernel? "Desktop Environment" = "Distro" makes a hell of a lot more sense to me, especially since the "desktop environment" is already something like 90% of the way to BEING a distro.
As long as I never take it to work, or use it in the library, or do anything outside of my own house with the drive and flash drive... yeah, then that's a solution. However, I need it to *work* when I take it to work, or to a buddy's house, and Fat32 is the only way to do that.
Believe me, I went through all the options before formatting that drive. (And not just because Windows makes you do all kinds of contortions to format a 200 GB drive as Fat32.)
Doom, Quake, Unreal tournament, tribal trouble, pontifex 2, gish, tuxracer, frozen bubble
I count... 5 games that you can also play on Windows (Frozen Bubble is just a port of Bust-A-Move, a game available on pretty much every platform.) I haven't played Tribal Trouble, Gish, or Tuxracer, mainly because when I last tried Linux, Ubuntu didn't have Tribal Trouble in its repository, Gish and Tuxracer didn't run, or didn't run worth crap.
The other problem is that if the disk is left in an unstable state, other computers won't be able to read the contents. Of course you could put that on the warning dialog also...
As for journalled filesystems, it's a great idea, but I need my memory key to be read on MacOS X, Linux, and Windows... and right now, Fat32 is the only file system that fits the bill. (I also had to format a 200 MB external USB2 drive as Fat32 for the same reason... why the hell isn't there a modern filesystem that ALL OSes support?)
Uh. Abandoned ROMs definately aren't legal. And downloading ROMs for games you already own in another is questionable, as well.
The story's about cancelled games. Duke Nukem Forever is still in active development, at least according to the studio. Since it hasn't been officially cancelled, it doesn't appear on the list.
The article's about cancelled games, not games that were scaled back before release. It's kind of annoying that a lost of posters here haven't even read the summary of the article before posting...
I notice the game is for Xbox... have you tried Ninja Gaiden? I've never played Last Ninja, so I don't know how close it is, but if you're looking for ninja action on Xbox, Ninja Gaiden's where it's at right now. (It even has two expansion packs, called Hurricane Packs, downloadable over Live.) Give it a try.
Oh, but it's hard... very very hard. Expect to replay boss battles over and over and over and over until you figure out the strategy to beat them, then 4-5 more times to actually pull it off.
which is approximately $610 in today's dollars, making it about the same as the Xbox 360.
Stop posting this misinformation. The suggested retail price of the most expensive Xbox 360 package is $399.99, despite what the Microsoft-hating hordes on this site want you to believe. It doesn't cost $610.
Ok, let's take a look:
The C-64 has two Atari-compatible joystick ports.
The C-64 has a cartridge port, for instantly loading applications. (Like, hmm, games.)
The C-64 has 8 hardware sprites.
The C-64 has 4 (I believe) sound channels.
The C-64 has enough horsepower for pixel-perfect ports of popular games at the time, like Zaxxon, Pac-Man, Q-Bert, etc.
The C-64 is capable of plugging into a TV set and using it as a monitor.
The C-64 has a 320x240 resolution screen with 16 colors.
If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Face it, the Commodore 64 is a video game console that also happens to be able to run some non-game applications.
If it were designed as a computer first, it would have loaded an OS off disk like a IBM PC, it would have emphasized text on the display instead of graphics (probably monochrome, but relatively high-res) like a PC, it would have had one sound channel to save costs for things that a computer user at the time wouldn't need, it wouldn't have had joystick ports or a cartridge slot.
Are you joking? Gmail lacks some pretty fundamental features... for instance, you can't have it read mail from a POP3 server (although it can serve as a POP3 server.) You can't connect to it using IMAP. When it came out, you couldn't connect to it using a web browser that didn't support Javascript, and Safari support (the default browser for millions of Mac users) was flakey. Hell, you can't even set up a group of contacts and email them all at once, for God's sake... Gmail wasn't "clearly the obvious leader" when it came out, and I wouldn't even say it is now... it's a lot closer, but I just can call something lacking contact groups a "leader."
You recall incorrectly. Washington gas stations are as automated as the gas stations in any other state... you're probably thinking of Oregon, which has strange and inscrutable laws about pumping gas. (Fortunately, if you fill up right before leaving WA, and drive straight south on I5, you can sometimes make it through the state without having to deal with their gas pumps. Offer valid only in economy cars.
It's all gibberish to me. How was I even supposed to know that xnest was a program? As far as I'm concerned, you might as well have typed:
fasaugw:=3287sda:d
dkash--98*823
saw__231"dsfa\
dsah11qdaaa.exe
That makes about as much sense. In any case, the original poster (Cortana) didn't provide summary of what those commands did, or at least are supposed to do, is because they wanted to lord their Unix knowledge over everybody else. All hail the high priesthood of technology! Otherwise, they would have given a reply that was useful including what the commands do and how they improve GIMP's functioning. Or maybe he was just a jerk, whatever.
Except that there's a Windows port of GIMP, and it's stupid to tell Windows users that their program, compiled specifically for Windows, requires a feature not available in Windows to work well. That's like the very definition of "half-assed port." (Plus, us Mac users don't have multiple desktops, either, and we have a GIMP port... even if you don't care about the Windows users, that's an issue.)
Part of the reason it worked my arse! That only gets in the way of it working. Why would you have multiple windows if you want them all to behave as a single one? You might as well just have a single window.
Did you ever use MacOS Classic? Macintosh was renowned for its great usability long before OS X came onto the scene and, yes, believe it or not: It worked very well. In fact, I kind of miss it since Apple went another direction in OS X.
It used to be the way things were done back in MacOS Classic (versions 7-9 or so), but it's not so much in OS X. Although a few apps still work that way, the vast majority have become more "Windows-like," putting all the functionality in a single window ala iTunes or XCode.
Back when they started designing GIMP, assuming it was designed and didn't just congeal, that would have been how the majority of Mac applications worked.
Part of the reason the palette system works in MacOS Classic is that when you bring an application to the front in Classic, you bring *all* its windows to the front, not just the one you clicked on. Applications were in "layers." This means you'd never have a situation where you could see your image, but not see your toolbar. That's changed in OS X, and it never existed in Linux or Windows.
So, at best, GIMP is trying to be like a MacOS Classic application and failing because none of the newest window managers treat application windows as "layers." (You can get this effect in OS X by clicking the icon on the Dock instead of the window to bring things forward, though.)
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en& q=xnest+--+:1export+DISPLAY=:0metacity+%26gimp&ie= UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Don't be a dumbass. There's no way to look something like that up on Google.
Hey, guess what... I like the new Gnome. I like their file browser better than any other available right now... they're the last game left in town with spatial browsing. If you don't like it, use something else. There are craploads of OSes with browser-based file browsing, and only one with spatial.
My big gripe about GIMP right now is that after you run "Script-fu" it doesn't put things back how they were... some of the scripts might add layers, some might leave a selection (different than the original selection) behind, etc. It's annoying as hell. "Script-fu" items should run the same as plug-ins in Photoshop... it does its work, it leaves the work area *the exact same* as it found it, and you can undo the whole she-bang with a single selection of Edit->Undo.
Well, since you didn't bother doing ANY goddamned research at all, you ended up posting something that was not only entirely wrong (unless Microsoft offshores to France-- somehow I doubt that!) and ended up being nothing but the worst and most blatant flamebait ever posted as an article on this site. Stop trying to defend yourself, Vicissidude. Like I said before, we've all read your summary, we know what you were trying to do. Get the hell off this site and never submit an article again.
Oh please. Now you're going to say your submission was some kind of noble effort to warn companies to make sure immunizations are in order before sending employees to foreign countries? We *READ THE SUMMARY* buddy, we know what you typed... don't backpedal and think people on this board are so stupid that we'll buy it.
Besides, he went to France. FRANCE! Who thinks of immunizations before going to France? It's not the Congo or something, it's FRANCE!
But it all sums up to this: You wrote, what is in all possibility, the stupidest Microsoft-bashing ever seen. By far.