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| 11 AUG 2009 at 11:18pm |
GreyFussPrivate Detective
Posts : 767
Joined: 4 DEC 2006
Status : Offline | Call me a Voyeur but I like Windows.
Could this poll have anything to do with porting Pieces of Eight?
"Don't Hate Me Because I Am Beautiful...There Are Many Other Reasons"
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| 11 AUG 2009 at 11:19pm |
IviniaGuild Master
Posts : 4459
Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | No...but it might have something to do with some Java applet games in my back room that Mac users can't seem to play.
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 12:45pm |
stevemacIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 91
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Err, it it just me, but don't you need one of the first three choices to be able to respond?
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 1:14pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By stevemac (14 AUG 2009 12:45pm)
Err, it it just me, but don't you need one of the first three choices to be able to respond?
No, you get other OS's such as BSD/Unix, SunOS, etc. You could also be running your own custom thing on any of your PC's/servers, etc.
I agree that the poll should have allowed you to give more than one reply, since you could of course be running 2 or more OS's on your different systems.
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 1:39pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Location: 0
Status : Offline | As TheTraveller suggests, one could be running one of the many non-Linux Unices, such as Solaris or a BSD variant. One could also conceivably be running DOS (although this is becoming exceedingly unlikely), or an embedded system such as Symbian or iPhone OS (which is becoming increasingly likely). The possibilities are legion, these days.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 1:50pm |
| Deleted User | ...and even more weird and wonderful would it be if you are running your home computer under DOS and you responded to the poll with your i-Pod...
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 1:51pm |
JKingSchattenjger
Posts : 2349
Joined: 4 MAY 2008
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Is that a challenge? [smiley=laughing.gif]
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 3:14pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By JKing (14 AUG 2009 1:51pm)
Is that a challenge? [smiley=laughing.gif]
It's probably not impossible, but you'd have to be a tecchie of the weirdest kind... [smiley=laughing.gif]
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 3:58pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Location: US, Texas
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Is that like a Techie Encounter of the Third Kind?
Cheers, Terry
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 4:17pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
Posts : 4941
Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Ever notice how Apple has seemed to have a lock on the entertainment industry- such as the fact that practically everyone in a movie using a computer would be using an Apple laptop with the Apple logo practically flashing in front of you. But more recently, it's like the other companies are fighting back and you often see either Dell's or Sony Vaios in movies now.
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 4:22pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By SirDave (14 AUG 2009 4:17pm)
Ever notice how Apple has seemed to have a lock on the entertainment industry- such as the fact that practically everyone in a movie using a computer would be using an Apple laptop with the Apple logo practically flashing in front of you. But more recently, it's like the other companies are fighting back and you often see either Dell's or Sony Vaios in movies now.
Who knows, Apple might have thought of the clever marketing idea to supply the movie industry with free IT equipment.
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 4:25pm |
sg7Sorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 213
Joined: 8 JUN 2004
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Dos on an ipod see link , there's even vista on ipod touch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrY3cgszuEo&feature=related
OK so there's no instructions I could see and it looks pretty unusable
Playing ME3-Citadel ,TOMB raider ,Skyrim Dragonborn
Waiting fot journey down episode 2 ,Dragon AGE 3
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 4:29pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Location: US, Texas
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Originally Posted By SirDave (14 AUG 2009 4:17pm)
Ever notice how Apple has seemed to have a lock on the entertainment industry- such as the fact that practically everyone in a movie using a computer would be using an Apple laptop with the Apple logo practically flashing in front of you. But more recently, it's like the other companies are fighting back and you often see either Dell's or Sony Vaios in movies now.
Not just on screen SirDave, but behind the scenes a lot of creative types are still locked into the whole Mac thing.
That used to be true throughout the marketing / advertising / design industry too. But in recent years, more and more people in the field have migrated to Windows out of necessity.
This was mostly due to pressure from Windows-based business clients and simple economic reality, which also impacted the commercial printers, publishers, audio / video / photo studios, stock image houses, etc.
Now you are just as likely to find a top graphic artist, illustrator or animator working on a PC as a Mac and all of them have to interface with Windows users of every kind. So that tide has changed significantly.
Cheers, Terry
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 5:00pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Terry_Penrod (14 AUG 2009 4:29pm)
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Originally Posted By SirDave (14 AUG 2009 4:17pm)
Ever notice how Apple has seemed to have a lock on the entertainment industry- such as the fact that practically everyone in a movie using a computer would be using an Apple laptop with the Apple logo practically flashing in front of you. But more recently, it's like the other companies are fighting back and you often see either Dell's or Sony Vaios in movies now.
Not just on screen SirDave, but behind the scenes a lot of creative types are still locked into the whole Mac thing.
That used to be true throughout the marketing / advertising / design industry too. But in recent years, more and more people in the field have migrated to Windows out of necessity.
This was mostly due to pressure from Windows-based business clients and simple economic reality, which also impacted the commercial printers, publishers, audio / video / photo studios, stock image houses, etc.
Now you are just as likely to find a top graphic artist, illustrator or animator working on a PC as a Mac and all of them have to interface with Windows users of every kind. So that tide has changed significantly.
Cheers, Terry
Yes, I know that to Apple's credit, they provided more advanced and (particularly) stable video/graphics applications on Macs before Windows. (I've been doing advanced video stuff under Windows since the late 90s and it took several weeks to get a stable suite of programs running and even as recently as 4 years ago, things were quirky with the new video apps I acquired. Also, setup a digital audio system under DOS in 1993 which allowed me to edit input from a portable digital recorder. That was a trip- the digital board was from Turtle Beach- bought the board as a demo from them at a computer show.) That probably gave them a leg up on getting them into movies (and probably in addition, Apple delivered a lot of free hardware to various people ).
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 8:33pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (14 AUG 2009 1:14pm)
I agree that the poll should have allowed you to give more than one reply, since you could of course be running 2 or more OS's on your different systems.
Ummm, Traveler? It IS setup to handle more than one answer...
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| 14 AUG 2009 at 8:52pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Ivinia (14 AUG 2009 8:33pm)
Originally Posted By TheTraveler (14 AUG 2009 1:14pm)
I agree that the poll should have allowed you to give more than one reply, since you could of course be running 2 or more OS's on your different systems.
Ummm, Traveler? It IS setup to handle more than one answer...
Yes, I know - so that's good, is what I'm saying. :-* :-* Maybe my wording is a bit off. Heck, I've been a bit off the past few weeks... [smiley=zombie.gif]
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| 15 AUG 2009 at 1:42pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | You and me both! Although I've been a little off for years. I have a habit of some words out I type. :
I blame it on being a poker and not a typer though, my brain is "typing" faster than my poking fingers can keep up.
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| 15 AUG 2009 at 1:51pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Ivinia (15 AUG 2009 1:41pm)
You and me both! Although I've been a little off for years. I have a habit of some words out I type. :
I blame it on being a poker and not a typer though, my brain is "typing" faster than my poking fingers can keep up.
A poker eh? Wow, there are so many different ways that one could possibly interpret that.... (and I suppose I would always choose the wrong interpretation... [smiley=laughing.gif] )
Yes, I know, I also sometimes poke at my keyboard like it is some dead thing. -wait, it is some dead thing...
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| 15 AUG 2009 at 6:57pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
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Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | I voted windows and mac. I now (since I got my macbook pro) use both.
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
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| 15 AUG 2009 at 9:05pm |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
Posts : 999
Joined: 11 MAY 2006
Status : Offline | Originally posted by TheTraveller
Yes, I know, I also sometimes poke at my keyboard like it is some dead thing. -wait, it is some dead thing...
*grins* Ah, I see the title of the book now:
"TheTraveller and the Necromantic Keyboard"...
I do hope that you wash your hands afterwards, or at least before you eat...
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*ahem*
Sorry.
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| 15 AUG 2009 at 9:22pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Thaumaturge (15 AUG 2009 9:05pm)
Originally posted by TheTraveller
Yes, I know, I also sometimes poke at my keyboard like it is some dead thing. -wait, it is some dead thing...
*grins* Ah, I see the title of the book now:
"TheTraveller and the Necromantic Keyboard"...
I do hope that you wash your hands afterwards, or at least before you eat...
Ah, I see we have one lucky person whose keyboard is actually alive.... do keyboards make good company, Thaumaturge?
Oops , I think we're messing up poor Ivinia's thread.
Sorry Ivinia.
You'll have to sue me
Well, at least we're keeping the thread bumped for you....
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| 15 AUG 2009 at 9:48pm |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
Posts : 999
Joined: 11 MAY 2006
Status : Offline | Ah, I see we have one lucky person whose keyboard is actually alive.... do keyboards make good company, Thaumaturge?
No, I'm afraid not - terribly untalkative. *pats his keyboard* I like it anyway.
Oh well, different (key)strokes for different folks, I suppose. Very different sometimes. ;P Which by no means necessarily a bad thing.)
You just wait until the Decepticons get wind of your techno-necromancy! What do you think that they'll think of your desecration of their sort-of-kin?
Okay, at least some of them might think "A cheap supply of unquestioning servants - I should remember that...", and a few will probably think: "Grr, kill squishy! KILL ALL SQUISHIES!". At least one might think: "I wonder whether Megatron is sufficiently distracted for me to shoot him in the back right now..."
*ahem* Yes, I'm done now. For the moment. ;P
On topic, I'm pretty sure that I voted for "Windows". Since that's what I have.
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*ahem*
Sorry.
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| 16 AUG 2009 at 1:27am |
IviniaGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (15 AUG 2009 9:21pm)
Oops , I think we're messing up poor Ivinia's thread.
Sorry Ivinia.
No need to apologize my chatty one. But since we're talking about keyboards, I can't wait to get me one of those where the keys lights up. I'm always working/playing in the dark here. They're pretty pricey though at the moment. :-/
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| 16 AUG 2009 at 1:45pm |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
Posts : 999
Joined: 11 MAY 2006
Status : Offline | Well, if you like light, and don't mind "pricey" (I would imagine), then might I suggest a projection keyboard, which, well, projects a keyboard (funnily enough ) onto a flat surface.
It looks as though it should be quite visible in the dark. ;P
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*ahem*
Sorry.
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