Jasper

True, but they're always complaining even when i'm trying to help out before giving them that advice, and I give that advice only when they ask what new computer they should buy. And mostly to provoke lads like him...

True. No need to flame. On the other hand, he probably can't stand mac being better :wink:

Here is your blame: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=161849 They're right...

I said I was doing graphic design for eight years, not that I'm studying it for eight years :wink:. Right now I'm still in high-school studying something I don't really know a translation for ('Graphic Shaping') on the Art School in Genk and I'll be studying graphic design next year, for four years. But I've had eight years of experience (I started when I was ten, so maybe the first four years don't really count, but it was the time that I learned to go with photoshop and how to design websites - but it's just four years of real graphic design, and four years of artschool.)

Don't replace your MacBook drive, since it won't be recognized by the system. And I'm not so sure Apple uses SATA or any standard drive, though it could be. Yes, if you had one, you could back-up all your files without any trouble. Don't forget that the errors in your system are copied as well, but all data is saved so you might be able to recover from that drive without problems. It just makes sure you have all things you had to be saved somewhere else so you can start again with another clean drive and then get your files back using your new system. Although here's a nice adive that might work: Get your battery out of your MacBook (maake sure it's turned off) and keep it that way for a while. Plug it back in and your system should work again. I rarely heard of any problems with the OS...

Helvetica may be overused, but it's still an unbeatable font. The old helvetica, though, is broing, but Helvetica Neue (try the lighter iteration) truly honor the great font of yore. I study Graphic Design in Belgium and have been doing it for the last eight years, so I - without trying to brag - have a good scent for fonts. My teacher, who is in graphic design for more than twenty years, uses Helvetica Neue standard - because it's just pretty. Just pretty. Although everyone should check out Ray Laraby's fonts - he's a great font designer and as well Pakenham as Expressway are great experiences, and nice fonts. I'm not buying them, but the free iterations are perfect for titles and so on, it's just nice. Don't insult Helvetica, or I see no more reason to hold back any accusations on your front. But yes, it's what you do with it. That's what I've been trying to tell people who want to learn 'how to design' - you just got to feel it, you gotta have the feel. Sadly enough, there are many crap designers who are proud of their shit, even though it's butt-ugly. Just like Photoshop: it's easy to learn the program, but using the tools to accomplish something is something you need to learn to do. I know many people who know how to work photoshop, but are unable to give any results that are nice...

Here's the simple, plastic ways of things: 1 - Make a shape with a gradient going from dark on the bottom to light on the top 2 - Make the same shape, only about three-quarters of the original size and put it higher on the last shape so that the distance between the two tops of the shapes is smaller than the distance of both bottoms. 3 - Make the Fill Opacity (see your layers palet) empty (0%) for the top shape and make a gradient from white on the top to transparant white on the bottom. Wala, you got a simple, nifty looking, 'plastic'/shiny' styled button without the hard work. For those guys that love making some extras, get a border around it with a gradient black-white-black ('three' colors!) and put it on 45°. You got a true shine of the buttons. Simplest way, I think, and it looks nice, too. And make the text on the button go from a very light color (light-white-blue) to white, and give it a detailed drop shadow (no more than 2 pixels depth!)

I was actually pointing at an external HDD on USB or Firewire - they should recognize it. And by the way, you can never connect another HDD to your system anyway... Try and external Hard Drive (minimum capacity: your laptop's HDD) and make a disk copy on it.

And restroing your system didn't work? Plug in your HDD before you start your computer perhaps? Ah well, that's all I can do for you. Apple will be glad to help you out, so it'll work out fine. I'm not sure if theyc an save your files, but probably they can. And what's up with that '.us' of your?

If I were you, I'de try something else first. Boot your MacOS X 10.4 disc on your system, and try to change your disk image. Try reseting it using the Disk Utility. If you use this utility, you can restore most things (try to restore your disk using this, rewrite your poermission and so on). If necessary, you can back up your entire system including the files and folders as a disk image on a external hard drive using the Disk Utility,k this way you can just reboot your system with the external drive to retrieve your files. But usually, you can just restore your system using a restart. What's the precise problem? So, in short, try mounting your disk utility from your install disk and use it to restore your permission and so on, don't format it just yet. If necessary, make a disk image on a seperate hard drive to save your entire data (this will take a while, though). Try to restore the problem later using your freshly installed macos. In the end, it's still a computer. The first person that says macs do'nt have errors and problems is simply dumb or in denial. Macs still have less problems and errors than windows, and doesn't annoy you with twenty-one messages saying 'new hardware found, click here to install' - even though it works fine without any installation... EDIT: I bumped on this on Wikipedia: . You can see here that your can use First AID or create new disc images. it's on your MacOS X 10.4 installation boot loader disk, so it shouldn't be a problem getting it working. I think - but I'm not sure - that you should hold down 'D' to boot from the disk when you restart your computer, although I can't verifuy that. Maybe you should... find out using the internet? This is all the help I've got on offer.

MACOS X 10.0 Introduction PART 1: PART 2: PART 3: These three is the must-be introduction to MacOS X. Check out how ugly the dock looked and how the pre-release version of the dock worked, see why they've chosen for certain looks and how Aqua came to be. Go for it, macboy!

Great news! Time to catch up on Mac history, so get your arse over to the following articles on wikipedia in matter of becoming a true apple-fan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc. I'll give you more to study once I tested your knowledge on these two.

Actually, they'll probably just make a disc image and write in on a new Wii. Write down your Wii serial number next time - then you'll see if it changed. They just mpake a disc image and place it on a new Wii, so there's nothing special about you losing almost nothing. Also, your Wii friends-code is probably used to check your Shop identity, so if it's changed your Virtual Console games won't work anymore.

Do LOST.. but in a reality soap? Promise the contestants a trip to Australia and let the plane crash on an island. Let actors mingle with people and make them afraid, create others and make it mysterious. It'sq on location, it's reality, and is plagiary. Wich is lovely. Or do that Noridc walking thing of Klimop, it's not a bad idea, for a new member (erm?).

Probably completely fucked. It's not as if anything that burned ever just came back.

When you were sneaking on on your girlfriend who was flirting with a christmas tree. Or Christmas?

You all sound like grampa telling stories about 'when I was a little kid...'. You sound like old, grumpy, dissatisfied people who liked the past better than the future. Than again, the past was without me, so I naturally asume the past was better.

I think I mentioned that only the videojunkies care. You're right about that, and they wouldn't be videojunkies if they didn't care - but still, the regular consumer outnumbers the videojunkies and that's what it's about. Now let's look at it for a second from Nintendo's point of view. If the regular, not-knowing consumer that doesn't want to spend to much money on their television and just enjoy what they can do and watch on it, than the regular consumer will like the low-priced, not-to-shabby-looking and known Wii. PS3 as well as 360 is aimed at those people who are willing to spend mountains of money to get the best out of their system. Now you have to ask yourself: who is getting outnumbered? Oh, and good FAQ about HD, but the point is that the HD consortium should bring out official facts with all the necessary information for regular consumers. They didn't and as long as they don't, they'll be in trouble - the HD-buzz will be over sooner than they think if they don't change politics. Just pointing that last hing out.

Who wrote that speach anyway?

In the end, it's not horsepower, but sales that win. If Nintendo sells 100 million Wii's worldwide and gets the biggest install base, chances are that Silicon Knights might just develop it anyway. You'll see their turn-around from the moment the money looks greener on the other side. They say it's horsepower, then they'll say it's gameplay. It's just keeping up appearances in this industry - so Dyack wnet to 360 because Wii didn't offer enough horsepower. He'll be back when Wii offers the largest install base. And maybe we can see the Trilogy becoming reality.

I'm pretty happy with Game Mania - no overpricing, only RRP, product by product policy, refunds or tradings on games not older than a week - if you ask nicely. We've got some good stores, but I seem to get that British complaining a lot lately. All British stores seem to ripp-off their costumers. Wich I find, very, very odd. I'm not from England (sobà but I wouldn't want to be a games buyer over there. We're never required to buy more than we want to. We get pre-orders in the first-come, first serve basis (not on launch day, first preorder, first to receive) and we have nice, friendly guys behind the counter that I know well enough to give me a free memory card 365 (that came with a second-hand GameCube, but was not in the price of the actual GameCube - wich meant it was free for the person buying the GameCube. I just got it). No, nothing to complain here. Like DCK says, it's a British thing. Odd, odd.

The problem lies within the consumer not knowing wht the hell is high-defenition and what not. Right now, I'm happy with my non-HD. I don't feel the great need for watching HD and watching movies on my laptop has never annoyed me one bit, even though my laptop is high-defenition (not in the official sense, but you need 1024x768 pixels, wich is more than SD's) and the quality hasn't bothered my one bit. Consumers know the savvy word High-Defenition, yet they don't notice the difference at all. They were watching ordinary DVD's without upscaling on their HD-television, and they said it was HD - even though it isn't. People will barely care - they just want to say 'I've got HD'. Mark my words: High-Defenition is the future. And by future, I mean future. The Wii is SD because in four years from now, there is HD at a lower price - and at that point people will buy HD and will know what it is. Back in the days that Nintendo announced they weren't going HD, I bet most of us didn't even know what the hell they were talking about. By the time Wii goes HD, it'll be cheap and great at the same time. but for now, most of us stick to SD - except you, videojunkies. I seriously advise you to read this article on GamesIndustry.biz - it's accurate, right and it's plainly great. It's the best thing written on HD up to this point. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=24033 And yes, I like HD, but no, I don't find it a defining feature. I find it more of a hassle, since you need to defend your lack of HD all the time, even though HD isn't really for all people yet... Oh, and never claim that HD is the defining feature. It's an add, but I'm glad we've got television in the first place and I'm content with the quality right now, and use up my imagination to fill up the rest. Why does everyone want to downsize imagination? I rest my case.

It's also a matter of being used. My aunt has a DVD-recorder, but doesn't know how to program it to tape something - and not a single person in their family can. With VHS, it's just pushing record on the right time. Yes, I know, it's dated - but it's got it's charm. Why do you think that VHS is dead? They said the same about CD when DVD was released. But ehre's a nice theory: everyone will keep using DVD's and CD's, because the DVD standard isn't the succesor of the CD - it complements it. DVD for video and CD for music. Replacing one of both is unneccesary and barely anyone knows what HD is, expect a buzz-word. Read the article link I posted earleir.