I'm sorry what was that. I run Warcraft 3 on my bottom of the line eMac better that any of the 2ghz WINTEL's I have played it on. Not only is is smooth and responsive I am playing with each of the settings set to max. Now that apple has finnaly decided to make gaming a priority we should see a lot of changes in Mac game development. I used to work for a game developer. There was a joke in the game about Microsoft and we were forced to take it out, out by the execs, because they can be very petty about those type of things. They will deny you acess to the latest DirectX for a few months or keep the DP release of a new OS out of your hands for compatability testing. This can cost a company millions. Perhaps if more devleopers could be given incentives to develop in OpenGL or the open source community could make some kind of OPENDirectX things would be a lot better for mac gamers.
Assuming you are viewing the flash version of the site, the far right control panel (mainframe) is the link to Animatrix. In addition to the trailer it has 9 preview cards for each of the episodes.
Instead of purchasing gold and then using alfalfa to "refine" the gold into nanoparticles, Why not engineer a species of kelp(or any other salt water plant) to leach gold directly from the ocean. As I understand it the ocean has a high concetration of gold and would be an excelent source.
I agree with you about 90 percent. This is the exact same way I view GTA3. Once I start playing it I can't stop. Now I would never advocate banning a game, but GTA3 certianly gives me pause. I consider my self a sensible, responsible, well adjusted individual. After I play GTA3 however, when I go out in my car, every car I see, I start thinking about stealing this car or that car, or how much fun it might be to blow this or that up. I can't help but think to myself, that If I am thinking this, what about the disturbingly large portion of population thats not quite right in the head.
It has been my understanding that Wil would be in about a dozen or so episodes of Enterprise over the next 2 years. I was hearing he would be part of the whole Temporal Cold War storyline. I wonder if he will be getting cut from this too?
Yes and I suppose when you spend millions on inventing a far supirior technology you will give it away for free instead of charging a buck or two for people to use it.
They are an alliance, but a very loose one. About two years ago the PowerPC line split in two. IBM continued on with the G3 processor line, while Motorola moved on to the G4 with Altivec. IBM decided that Altivec was unncessisary for their product lines and stuck with the G3 arcitecture. Apple then announced the G4 and demand was far far higher than expected. Apple was then able to convince IBM to start producing G4s. This didn't make Motorola happy because they had a monopoly on Apple again. This relationship got even more strained, as IBM's G4s were much faster, than Motorola's, but due to contracts IBM could only sell Apple Processors on par or below Motorola's speeds. This is I suspect why the new top of the line apples are about $500 less than the top of the line a 6 months ago, because IBM had a huge back log of processors it could not sell to Apple for a long time.
There is an excellent pair of books by Greg Cox titled, The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonian Sighn. The two books follow the life of Khan through the eyes of Gary Seven and his assistant Roberta, from the original series Assignment: Earth. Both of the books are very funny, with tie-ins not only to each Star Trek series's sojurns into the 21st century, but just about every other sci-fi, series around.
Perhaps its the fact that I only got 1300 on my SAT's, but for some reason I don't remember Star Trek starting with Episode 4. Maybe you were thinking of some other "Star" francise?
No being a slow builder does not make you any less stratigic. On 2 of the maps included in the game you can destroy the bridges to your base. When they get there with his land based force, they are screwed, because you took the extra time to get a few zeplins and tech up to air units, and they forced to drink the kool-aid to get under the supply limit.
I find this interesting, because a few years back, part of Clinton's plan to bridge the digital divide was to have the US Postal Service provide free web based e-mail to everyone in the country. Each person would recive an email address MailAddress@90210.gov or something similar, which they could access at the local public library. Maybe the fact that hotmail and yahoo mail were in place negated the need, but I still know a large number of people who have heard of neither.
I am a poor unemployed Network Tech. Right now for all of my gaming needs I have a Power PC 66mhz machine and you know what... I play Starcraft on in as well as some of the PC I used to play it on with 4x the specs. I can just imagine what I will games I will be playing on an 800mhz machine when yet another Bush has f'd up the economy a dozen years from now.
Will any of these free "better than MP3" music formats be able to compete with MP3? I don't want to rip my whole collection over again and I don't want to lose a generation with some transfer program. IMHO The only way a new music format would have a chace is if a large player started not just to use it but to depend on it. There are far better alternives on the high end of audio. And if you arn't on the high end you are everybody else, and everybody else, seems to be quite content with MP3. I would love something better but I need somethign to motivate me to switch
In not so suprising news Apple Computer Inc is suing rival computer company Compaq for copyright infringment. "The new iPAQ is an attempt to cash in on our millions of dollars spent on the iMAC" says one Apple Marketoid. When asked to respond to the rash of illogical, and frivolous patents and copyrights lately Apple responded, "We only pattend the italic i as it applies to cute little computer type things. I mean what if you wanted to buy a computer, the iPAQ would create customer confusion"
I have always love the Apple Easter eggs. For a complete list try David Pogue's Great Mac easter egg hunt" Most recently was in OSX DP3. When you booted your computer holding down CTRL+ALT+DEL it would respond "This is not a PC". Many early ones involved hidden icons from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" like the holy hand granade and the rabbit.
For those who have a Mac with OS 8.1 or earlier try this:
type "secret about box" into any application with dragable text. highlight and drag the text onto the desktop.
You will get either a breakout type game or a picture of Cuppertino.
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Yes but it will be a big deal. Sony made their recovory CD to work with their comupter. Great! This was a great thing when haredware manufatures started bundling restore CD's with their wintels, esp laptops which can be a pain in the ass to configure when they change the hardware within the same model (or in Gateway's case even the same build...FUCK GATEWAY!!FUCK FUCK FUCK...Sorry had to say that.) But what once was a convinece that added value to your purchase, is all you get. You don't get your coaster copy of Win 98 anymore. Now you use for one computer and one computer only
WOW! I have never seen such a scathing article in my life. Oh wait I forgot about Aqua DP2 and DP3.(Not flaimbait!) Anyways I can't belive that something could be so horrible. After reading about every single problem and flaw, I need to try it to see how bad it could possibly be. I mean it's like staring at a car wreck or trying to install MS Exchange server over and expecting a different result. You know it's morbid... You know it's wrong... But you just have to do it! Great marketing Romero. Make a game so bad people have to play it to see how bad it really is.
There are still very few theatres that even have digital projectors. This movie will probably open up to something like 2500 - 3000 screens. There are maybe a hundred or so digital screens at most. I would love to see it in digital, and living in the Los Angeles Metro I will have the opportunity if I want to, but most of us are still going to be stuck with film. The only relevant liks I can find is Qualcomm's digital cinema site. Does anyone know a site that lists digital theatres?
Paul Jessop, director of technology at the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industries) said that apart from the jurisdictional issues, there exist other obstacles to successful prosecution. "For example, using Napster, you can set up the machine so it behaves like a sharing application," Jessop explains. "That is clearly against the law and such a case would be interesting. But it is the issue of personal use [where one single copy is permitted] which will be most difficult in an actual case."
Yeh those damn sharing applications.... They are so illegal. Gotta look out for those data bases and web servers, and....
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I'm sorry what was that. I run Warcraft 3 on my bottom of the line eMac better that any of the 2ghz WINTEL's I have played it on. Not only is is smooth and responsive I am playing with each of the settings set to max. Now that apple has finnaly decided to make gaming a priority we should see a lot of changes in Mac game development. I used to work for a game developer. There was a joke in the game about Microsoft and we were forced to take it out, out by the execs, because they can be very petty about those type of things. They will deny you acess to the latest DirectX for a few months or keep the DP release of a new OS out of your hands for compatability testing. This can cost a company millions. Perhaps if more devleopers could be given incentives to develop in OpenGL or the open source community could make some kind of OPENDirectX things would be a lot better for mac gamers.
Assuming you are viewing the flash version of the site, the far right control panel (mainframe) is the link to Animatrix. In addition to the trailer it has 9 preview cards for each of the episodes.
I agree with you 100%. The people put out of bussiness by this, can simply go and get a job building them.
A friend of mine in Orange County, CA told me that one of the P.E. Teachers brings DDR into school once a week for the students to work out on.
There is one big problem with your statement. Apple is a hardware company. Mac OS is something they sell to go along with thier hardware.
Instead of purchasing gold and then using alfalfa to "refine" the gold into nanoparticles, Why not engineer a species of kelp(or any other salt water plant) to leach gold directly from the ocean. As I understand it the ocean has a high concetration of gold and would be an excelent source.
I agree with you about 90 percent. This is the exact same way I view GTA3. Once I start playing it I can't stop. Now I would never advocate banning a game, but GTA3 certianly gives me pause. I consider my self a sensible, responsible, well adjusted individual. After I play GTA3 however, when I go out in my car, every car I see, I start thinking about stealing this car or that car, or how much fun it might be to blow this or that up. I can't help but think to myself, that If I am thinking this, what about the disturbingly large portion of population thats not quite right in the head.
Why not? When he first came back he called himselft the iCEO.
It has been my understanding that Wil would be in about a dozen or so episodes of Enterprise over the next 2 years. I was hearing he would be part of the whole Temporal Cold War storyline. I wonder if he will be getting cut from this too?
Yes and I suppose when you spend millions on inventing a far supirior technology you will give it away for free instead of charging a buck or two for people to use it.
They are an alliance, but a very loose one. About two years ago the PowerPC line split in two. IBM continued on with the G3 processor line, while Motorola moved on to the G4 with Altivec. IBM decided that Altivec was unncessisary for their product lines and stuck with the G3 arcitecture. Apple then announced the G4 and demand was far far higher than expected. Apple was then able to convince IBM to start producing G4s. This didn't make Motorola happy because they had a monopoly on Apple again. This relationship got even more strained, as IBM's G4s were much faster, than Motorola's, but due to contracts IBM could only sell Apple Processors on par or below Motorola's speeds. This is I suspect why the new top of the line apples are about $500 less than the top of the line a 6 months ago, because IBM had a huge back log of processors it could not sell to Apple for a long time.
There is an excellent pair of books by Greg Cox titled, The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonian Sighn. The two books follow the life of Khan through the eyes of Gary Seven and his assistant Roberta, from the original series Assignment: Earth. Both of the books are very funny, with tie-ins not only to each Star Trek series's sojurns into the 21st century, but just about every other sci-fi, series around.
Perhaps its the fact that I only got 1300 on my SAT's, but for some reason I don't remember Star Trek starting with Episode 4. Maybe you were thinking of some other "Star" francise?
No being a slow builder does not make you any less stratigic. On 2 of the maps included in the game you can destroy the bridges to your base. When they get there with his land based force, they are screwed, because you took the extra time to get a few zeplins and tech up to air units, and they forced to drink the kool-aid to get under the supply limit.
If you did that, you would never know when one of the dust bunnies became sentient and grew oversided feet.
I find this interesting, because a few years back, part of Clinton's plan to bridge the digital divide was to have the US Postal Service provide free web based e-mail to everyone in the country. Each person would recive an email address MailAddress@90210.gov or something similar, which they could access at the local public library. Maybe the fact that hotmail and yahoo mail were in place negated the need, but I still know a large number of people who have heard of neither.
I am a poor unemployed Network Tech. Right now for all of my gaming needs I have a Power PC 66mhz machine and you know what... I play Starcraft on in as well as some of the PC I used to play it on with 4x the specs. I can just imagine what I will games I will be playing on an 800mhz machine when yet another Bush has f'd up the economy a dozen years from now.
For those who have a Mac with OS 8.1 or earlier try this:
type "secret about box" into any application with dragable text. highlight and drag the text onto the desktop.
You will get either a breakout type game or a picture of Cuppertino.
Yes but it will be a big deal. Sony made their recovory CD to work with their comupter. Great! This was a great thing when haredware manufatures started bundling restore CD's with their wintels, esp laptops which can be a pain in the ass to configure when they change the hardware within the same model (or in Gateway's case even the same build...FUCK GATEWAY!!FUCK FUCK FUCK...Sorry had to say that.) But what once was a convinece that added value to your purchase, is all you get. You don't get your coaster copy of Win 98 anymore. Now you use for one computer and one computer only
WOW! I have never seen such a scathing article in my life. Oh wait I forgot about Aqua DP2 and DP3.(Not flaimbait!) Anyways I can't belive that something could be so horrible. After reading about every single problem and flaw, I need to try it to see how bad it could possibly be. I mean it's like staring at a car wreck or trying to install MS Exchange server over and expecting a different result. You know it's morbid... You know it's wrong... But you just have to do it! Great marketing Romero. Make a game so bad people have to play it to see how bad it really is.
There are still very few theatres that even have digital projectors. This movie will probably open up to something like 2500 - 3000 screens. There are maybe a hundred or so digital screens at most. I would love to see it in digital, and living in the Los Angeles Metro I will have the opportunity if I want to, but most of us are still going to be stuck with film. The only relevant liks I can find is Qualcomm's digital cinema site. Does anyone know a site that lists digital theatres?
Buttons! Buttons! We don't need no stinking Buttons!
Yeh those damn sharing applications.... They are so illegal. Gotta look out for those data bases and web servers, and....