Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Feb 16, 2002 4:24pm PSTLittle confusion with DNS goofed things up for half a day... sorry about that. If you are seeing this, then good! Most everything should be working again although I'm sure a few misc glitches will show up.
- Dinosaur stuff! They were birds! - Roundup of 'what may be next' tech inventions. - Some dude was in prison for over a week for his twin brother. - Meet men while you bank! - Bad guys use PCs, good guys use Macs. - PayPal IPO actually went well.Lastly, some folks have been having some issues posting. be sure to actually login with your account and have accepting of cookies turned on. If you dont like cookies then Maarten and I dont like you!
Steel Battalion Heavy Armor demo now on Xbox Live
Civilization V getting free Steam weekend
Report: Average Old Republic server has less than 350 players online
Xbox limitations led to annual Magic: The Gathering games
New Pandaren mounts revealed for World of Warcraft
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=2988418
The thing about Macs is that if you use one for two months straight, you will probably get used to the little querks and at least respect what Apple has done. Yes, I know that the single button mouse is shitty...I just bought a M$ mouse after purchase. I know that OSX is a little performance hog. It gets better if you shut some of the shit off. WinXP is just as bad before you shut all the shit off in it. And if you are going to be a professional graphics person...you should probably get used to the Mac.
I admin 30+ Macs at work all the way from 7200/120's to G4-500's and I have grown to really like them. With a Macintosh, you don't have to worry about stupid junk like your chipset and your sound card not liking eachother. And if the OS ever gets messed up, you just throw in your Software Restore disk and do it to it. If it is beyond help, you Initialize the drive and reinstall. I can take a borked install of OS9.2.2 and have the drive formatted and the OS reinstalled in under 35 mins...including updates. PC users would still be looking at formatting progress bars.
As far as price goes...you got me there. Macs are pretty damn expensive. When you buy a Mac, you are not just buying a computer..you are buying an experience. Kindda like buying a car because it feels better on the road then another car.
As far as looks go...in my opinion, if you are going to buy a computer why can't it look good too? Why should you spend $1000 or more and get a beige box that looks drab and boring? And Apple is WAY ahead on case design. I pull one lever and the case opens with no effort.
I am not saying that Windows is not a decent platform. I actually think that Windows XP is a decent OS once you close some security holes. I liken it to automobiles...some people like Ford trucks, some people like SUV's, some like sports cars, and still others like more fuel efficent cars. Each one has it ups and its downs...just learn to deal with the one you like.
I am not trying to start a border war with the PC users...just wanted to add my thoughts..
-=fatman=- over and out...
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i want honest opinions & suggestions because im an amatuer and i suck ass
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We got internet!
Do you have internet yet?
Internet 1/2 off
and one referring to something like the whole internet on a floppy
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Quake 2 > Quake 3 > Quake 1
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Hitler action figure.
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I can only come up with the following reasons:
1.) The old “But graphics applications and movie editing are both better on the Mac” myth. I’m sure that was once true, but PC’s have evolved to the point where this simple isn’t the case anymore.
2.) They are pretty. Yes, they are pretty, but almost totally proprietary because of this wonderful thing called planned obsolescence.
3.) They are for rich people. This actually ties into the whole pretty thing as well. For the price you pay for the new iMAC you can get a loaded out PC that wonÂ’t be a lame-duck within a year or two.
4.) Did I mention they are pretty and people with lots of money to burn like them because it places them above the Wintel heathens? Seriously, go to some of the Mac sites and read the message boards..some of those people have such an unreasoning hatred of wintel users that it reminds me of racial bigotry.
Anyone here used an iMac? Do they really transform you into some kind of uber-cool, hip, computing GOD?
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BITCH. ASS. MOTHER. FUCKERS!
*sigh*
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get on it, we have 1008.85 GB of data for downloading.
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reintalled windows.. forgot halflife cd key is located in registry.. dont know where cdcase for halflife is. crap.
can't be arse waiting for it to ship via amazone or some monkey
thanks:)
For once, I don't hate Sony.
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Is there something wrong with me?
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GG
That is all.
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you bad shackers you
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I can smell your brains
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just got bak from clubbing. i was at one club and that ended at 4 am and then i was invited to another club (that retardedly charges $40 to get in line or $60 to go right in) and i would get in free cause i know people that know people. so i'm past the velvet rope without forking over any cash and the security makes me take out everything from my pockets and they tell me i cant go in with my pen (it is about 4" long and fat) because i may stab someone with it. so i said goodbye to the people i was with and came home. fuck them! my pen is mightier than their club!
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hey man this game kicks ass for a freeware game, it's more fun than most of the $50 shit people put out these days, damn!
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