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Comment Re:Support for Mac? (Score 1) 317

by CapnOats.com on Friday September 19, 2008 @02:39PM (#25075121) Attached to: Mythic Launches <em>Warhammer Online</em>

Wow, touched a nerve there, good thing I had my flame suit on!

Sorry, I thought when you said "macs and os x for games" you meant Macs and OS X as two separate items, not as a single platform.

I'll agree wholeheartedly with the OS X is a shitty platform for games, and it hacks me off that the industry sees the Transgaming/Cedega/Cider thing as "supporting" mac as a platform, because it really, really isn't. There's no legitimate reason for it not to be, it's all the same hardware and there is OpenGL support, it's just a shame that the game developers like DirectX more.

The reason that I can probably ramp up the settings is because the 24" iMac comes with what is supposed to be an 8800 GS, but is really an 8800M GTS with 512MB VRAM and I spec'd the RAM up to 4GB. I've done the willy-waggling thing with custom PCs before and have had nothing but headaches throughout the process, so I can't be bothered any more. I have a life outside of computers, so the time I do spend with them I like them to be working, rather than be working on them.

When I buy from Apple they warranty the whole system rather than just the components so if something does go wrong I just package up the lot and ship it off, rather than tearing the rig down and eliminating the dodgy components myself. I used to be an IT guy, but I've moved to software development specifically to get away from that.

Submission + - New site dedicated to the cheapest of notebooks (littlelinuxlaptop.com) 1

Submitted by

Little Linux Laptop

on Monday August 25, 2008 @06:45AM

Little Linux Laptop writes: "There's a tiny little laptop that goes by many names. The 3k Razorbook 400, Trendtac 700 EPC, Elonex One T, Yinlips Micro PC, Bestlink Alpha 400 are all basically the same notebook, rebranded and sold by a variety of different companies in different parts of the world. What these laptops have in common (aside from nearly identical hardware) is the fact that they're cheap and they typically run Linux or Windows CE. Because of the different names, searching for resources was quite a hassle. Luckily someone decided to put up a site dedicated to these laptops: http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/ where you can find fixes, patches, software and games, all for free."

Submission + - Harry Potter and a Goblin's Take on Copyright (scienceaddiction.com)

Submitted by

DevanJedi

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @10:13PM

DevanJedi writes: "Here's a passage from page 517 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : (Ron's brother Bill is warning Harry against trusting a goblin Griphook.) "You don't understand, Harry, nobody could understand unless they have lived with goblins. To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs. [...] They have, however, great difficulty with the idea of goblin-made objects passing from wizard to wizard. [...] They consider our habit of keeping goblin-made objects, passing them from wizard to wizard without further payment, little more than theft." These goblins sound like our friendly neighborhood MPAA/RIAA lawyers!"

Submission + - Are Mobile Phone Masts Responsible For Illness?

Submitted by drewmoney on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @08:55PM

drewmoney writes: According to a major UK study, symptoms of illness caused by mobile phone masts is "all in the mind".

Excerpts from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6914492.stm

Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless suffering "real symptoms".

Campaign group Mast Sanity "http://www.mastsanity.org/" said the results were skewed as 12 people in the trials dropped out because of illness.

Submission + - Gamer creates auto-"play" robot for the 36

Submitted by root_42 on Monday February 26, 2007 @08:10AM

root_42 writes: As the BBC reports US gamer David Harr created a small device to restart games of Perfect Dark Zero for him. As a devote gamer he collected all achievement points, except for the final 60. Those could only be achieved by playing 2,000 offline games of Perfect Dark Zero. So he just built a "robot" that pushed the buttons so as to start and re-start the games, instead of him, which would have taken 40 hours in front of the Xbox.

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