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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: JBX-Phoenix on June 27, 2003, 05:45:10 pm
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Found this on RTCW forums:
The Mac (http://www.ancientspear.com/mac.wmv)
(.wmv | 3537kb)
:lol:
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ROFL!:lol:
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I'd buy one just for the comedic value
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Excellent!! :D
But yeah, the OS X bouncing application list on the bottom is a pain in the ass... (yeah, my mother owns one, and I have to endure it...)
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I hate WMV... Media Player 6.4 can't seem to download an appropriate decompressor. Any regular AVI files of this?
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K, Ive converted it to avi with divx 5.0.2 thingy (video n00b :o ). Got anywhere to upload it too?
EDIT: Jesus the size just jumped to 13 mb btw :eek:
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That was funny :)
Sandwich, get the bloody new media player. Its infinitely better once you turn off everything that MS wants you to have on. Then its really good.
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Or get media player classic - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/media_player_classic.html
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Originally posted by IceFire
Its infinitely better once you turn off everything that MS wants you to have on. Then its really good.
Heh, you said it. ;)
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Before I D/L that, is it the spoof advert?
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Yep.
Here's what looks like an MPEG version: clicky (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/media/*****.mpg)
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Originally posted by IceFire
Sandwich, get the bloody new media player. Its infinitely better once you turn off everything that MS wants you to have on. Then its really good.
NOOOOOooooooo......!!!!!!!!111112 I won't do it!! Nope, no way, forget it, no no nononononononono... oh, ok. ;) I will... once HELL FREEZES OVER!!!!!!!!!!! :mad2: :hopping:
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Originally posted by vyper
Or get media player classic - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/media_player_classic.html
Hey, great link - don't know why I never saw that one. Unfortunately, it works with the codecs installed for Media Player 6.4, and the newer codecs refuse to install on my WMP 7.0+ -less system. But I like that player. :D
Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Here's what looks like an MPEG version: clicky (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/media/*****.mpg)
Why thank you, kind sir! That played perfectly - 50Mb, but 'tis a trifle with my 200Kbps connection. ;)
And how come none of you have noticed that this is, as far as I can tell, a brilliant jab at PCs, and NOT Macs? :nod:
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Because it isn't, really.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Because it isn't, really.
I bet it is. :)
The "drag to desktop creates shortcut" complaint cued me in. ;)
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Hmm... Maybe you're talking about some XP thing. That's not true on mine. Nor, for that matter, is it that you have to use approximately three different keyboards, two case buttons, excellent timing, and a trained octopus to shut anything down. I had to work on Macs for an entire year doing a magazine; my experiences were summed up exactly in what he said here, and nothing more.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Hmm... Maybe you're talking about some XP thing. That's not true on mine. Nor, for that matter, is it that you have to use approximately three different keyboards, two case buttons, excellent timing, and a trained octopus to shut anything down. I had to work on Macs for an entire year doing a magazine; my experiences were summed up exactly in what he said here, and nothing more.
Ok then, we both have experiences from the opposite perspective. The only things he said that weren't precisely applicable to PCs were the dock bar not going to the top, and the deleted file thingy. All the rest completely parallels my PC experience, just with Mac terminology.
Which, even if this is a jab at Macs, makes it doubly-funny towards PCs. :D
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I can guarantee you that getting out of a lockup in a PC is 500 times easier and doesn't involve a power cord.;)
Some of the stuff, like unstable software, applies to any operating system- largely because it doesn't always have to do with the operating system- RDS in particular loves playing this game of "guess when I'm gonna blow up" on my machine. But other than that... well, what? I guess the whole "tricking the computer into doing what I want" would work if you weren't at all familiar with PC operation, but beyond that I dunno...
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Well, it just sounds like exactly what I went through immediately before upgrading to Windows 2000 - 98 was being, well... 98. :p
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Never had 98 crash once.
It's godawful slow, to the point where it might as well be crashed at times, but that's because I made the mistake of installing Office XP on it. And XP is Satan offal done in binary.
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98SE or 98? And did you actually try to use it for more than a day at a time w/o rebooting?
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Can't. See above reference to "godawful slow".;)
It really is that bad.
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had 98SE crash about 5 times a day :doubt:
Xp crashes about 3 times a week, I call that quite an achievement :p ( I run a lot of progs at the same time, and before uyou ask, I do that coz I have to, ok? )
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XP is quite stable over here, switched to it after I had Windows 98SE do a near-complete crash (I could get into Windows using safe mode, but that was about it).
Only problems I have with XP are with some of my older parts not cooperating driver-wise.
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Basically, does anyone else see my point about this possibly being an absolutely ingenious jab at Mac-bashing PCs? :D
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Basically, does anyone else see my point about this possibly being an absolutely ingenious jab at Mac-bashing PCs? :D
You mean the whole thing of making fun of PC users who bash Macs all the while bashing Macs anyways :)
If thats what you mean, then I got that. It was very funny. Especially because I sell and use Macs at work. The be all and the end all is that I have totally gotten out of my system any impression that the Mac system is any better than the PC system. The supposed system stability, flawless design, and that sort of thing...meanwhile I find them more frusterating to use, there is no hide all windows and go to desktop function in OS 10.2 (I hear Panther will have it - horray, this should have been done earlier), and the kicker is that the things crash more often than all of my PC's running Win98 and WinXP. Now I'm sure it broils down to the software you are running and how well its installed...but I certainly see nothing in any way superior to the PC platform and the fact that I get around better in a DOS/Windows environment means that I'm not going to switch any time soon. Bring on a good Linux competitor and some serious game support...that'll get me away from MS :D
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LMFAO!!!!
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Is OSX really that unstable Icefire? I'd always assumed that it would be rock solid thanks to the BSD core.
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What's the betting the following Zylon Bane post will have the rolleyes smiley in it?
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Hey, great link - don't know why I never saw that one. Unfortunately, it works with the codecs installed for Media Player 6.4, and the newer codecs refuse to install on my WMP 7.0+ -less system. But I like that player.
You can install the latest codecs without actually installing WMP.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=E5F013AC-393C-419D-A2D5-7DB134CC1B32&freetext=codecs&DisplayLang=en
(well, I think you can anyway. if not... eh, just go ahead and install the latest WMP, but never use it)
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Dammit, you win this time *shakes angry fist*
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
What's the betting the following Zylon Bane post will have the rolleyes smiley in it?
You were wrong, DG.:D
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Well, no, because I didn't actually say that I thought he'd use the smiley, did I?
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It's interesting that diamondgeezer remains firmly convinced that I'm a troll, when the tragic truth is that I just have a nil tolerance for twits... such as him.
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You got lucky, that's all. I'll have'ee yet
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
It's interesting that diamondgeezer remains firmly convinced that I'm a troll, when the tragic truth is that I just have a nil tolerance for twits... such as him.
Nah.. I think he thinks you're more of a dick than anything else, to be honest.
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Originally posted by karajorma
Is OSX really that unstable Icefire? I'd always assumed that it would be rock solid thanks to the BSD core.
I would hope and assume that if all you are running is OSX native programs than it would be more stable than it is...as it stands, the sales system we use is still OS9. And while it works...other OS9 programs will have trouble running at the same time. Better yet...IE which is OS X native tends to hang or pause for several seconds consuming much more time browsing around than it does on my pc (where IE is so fast I barely even notice any pauses).
Maybe I've just had the worst case scenarios with Macs but every single one I have used so far I have not seen a marked improvement in stability. As it stands, they are less stable than either of my Windows XP machines. So I love being given the speech about the superiority of Macs (from customers that come in for instance) when I've found that they are just as flawed as the PC's that I prefer.
Its just odd...its just my observation...and my frusteration. But at one time I did consider switching...OS X is a very nice looking operating system. With no software loaded, it performs nicely...and several design considerations aside it does work very nicely. But I've found the errors and discovere the grass not greener on the other side...
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
What's the betting the following Zylon Bane post will have the rolleyes smiley in it?
Browsing the "Who's Online?" page again, DG? ;)