XP does the two things you really want an OS to do well. Run all the software you want, on the hardware you want. But XP is getting long in the tooth.
The market is going to things like these UMPCs. It's going to tablets and other exotic hardware. Windows is losing one of the two things here. Vista doesn't run at all on them. Microsoft's only answer is keep putting out XP. On these systems, even XP doesn't run on the hardware as well as Linux.
Next up is software. These aren't gaming PCs. Linux is running the software people want to run. Firefox, Pidgin for IMs, It plays media without hassles. It has an office suite. Toss wine on there, and it will even run Office. Look at all the solutions that mac users use to run a couple Windows programs on OSX. The market is coming around to just using emulation for that last 5% of Windows software they want or need to run.
If Windows loses the only two reasons people put up with it, why would they continue to run it? OEMs are seeing this as well, and are just putting out Linux machines. Dell is going "If people buying Apple machines will use Parallels to run Windows stuff they can't in OSX, why can't they just use Crossover to run them on Linux"? In a market like PC, that $20 they spend on that Windows license is $20 they can't lower the price to compete with others. That $20 is a difference in someone buying a Dell, and going elsewhere.
Windows may end up being a niche market, with business that just need native Windows for one reason or another. But considering they are losing the two reasons home users RUN Windows, and then the added headaches associated to running it, why are they going to continue to bother?
If you want a good F1 sim, you can get the MMG F1 mod for rFactor. For online racing, it's as good as it gets, and maybe better than what Codemasters will put out.
But like most things rFactor, offline racing is so-so. Offline racing isn't something modders usually concentrate on for mods, although rFactor itself CAN work well offline. That's one thing I don't think anything outside GP4 has brought to the table in recent years--good offline racing.
Three examples I can think of are GT5 having Ferrari's 07 car, and both rFactor and Live For Speed both having BMW's.
EA signed Lewis Hamilton to a deal a while back, so I assume an F1 game with at least McLaren would be in the works--nothing has been announced as of yet however.
As far as tracks go, I think the F1 license covers all use of tracks used by the F1 Championship. However, the tracks are also free to be in other games. Various games over the years have had licensed versions of tracks, from Monza to Suzuka.
Depending on where you buy the laptop, there is also included software that isn't "free".
For instance, I believe the Dell's come with DVD playing software, and something to support mp3. Yes, it's trivial to just download the software on your own through even the official means. But it's also a legal grey area.
Will they stop pointing fingers and actually attempt to fix Ubuntu killing hard drives on laptops?
I boot Ubuntu on this laptop, and it sounds like there's a midget inside of my laptop with a Nintendo Zapper. "clicka clicka clicka" every other minute.
The "fix" of just turning off all power management isn't a fix.
As good as World of Warcraft is for some people, a lot of people I know that used to play it just had enough of it. You play the same game for years, you tend to get bored of it, new content or not.
World of Warcraft won't be going anywhere for at least another couple years, but I'd expect at least either AoC or Warhammer to get into the millions of users and take a chunk out of WoW's userbase.
Is this better or worse than requiring a CD in the drive to play? Update: 05/07 17:17 GMT by T : According to a message from Technical Producer Derek French (may require a scroll-down) on the Bioware forums, there is indeed an internet connection required, but only for activation, not for all future play.
It seems like you have an idea of what you want this class to be. The idea isn't to just pick a text because it's "good". It's to pick a book that has the same ideas you want to teach. You may find a "good" textbook, and just don't believe in certain philosophies in the book. You don't want to keep having to go "well, it's like this in the book, but it's better to do it my way". If you've fleshed out your ideas into actual lesson plans, it may just be better to bypass a book, and strictly go on course notes. Like I said, the main factor in this will be finding a book that melds with what you want to do.
Books people have mentioned, such as the ORA books, ARE good references. But they aren't text books, and it probably isn't a good idea to use them like one.
My suggestion, would be to read though some of the options here. However, if none match with what you planned, good course notes and classroom time would be the better idea. Especially if there are ideas that a book present that go against what you are teaching. You don't want students that have two conflicting ideas about a topic.
That isn't to say that IPv6 support couldn't be improved however.
It works fine if you just want it to autoconfig. But really anything more than that requires a drop to the commandline.
Vista did had better support for IPv6, you can configure it the same way you currently do IPv4.
Although I wish they put in an option in either XP or Vista to prefer an IPv6 route over a IPv4 if both are available. That is, without having to manually muck around with the routing tables via netsh.
I've had many classes at two different institutions.
I've never had a class that actually used the system. At best, they would put a syllabus on the website. MAYBE they would even put a grade or two. And the classes that I had that put grades up, it would be like the first homework grade and nothing else.
For all the money schools put into buying and maintaining these systems, it seems like it's not for any purpose.
The only reason I keep XP around is for gaming anyways. I'm figuring by the time XP really goes the way of the dodo, the 3d support for Windows applications will be there. If that's some version of virtualization, or wine having DX9 support completely that's what I'll use. Both of these options are "mostly there" now. VMware does some 3D, and wine can run a lot of DX9 stuff, just not what I need.
I used Vista, and I don't really like it. I like Ubuntu, but there are some things like games, that it doesn't run. I feel choosing the OS, then the applications is like putting the cart before the horse. When I can run rFactor(a PC driving sim) in Linux, I can migrate to it. I fully believe I'll be able to do this before XP is dead.
Just because some random people determine something is "trival" doesn't mean it is.
There are a lot of things that are marked as such, that I don't think they are. Episode lists of TV shows for instance. Watch a show, want to know what season it was in, Wikipedia can tell you...at least for now.
I've always considered that the whole IDEA of Wikipedia. A site with every meaningful and meaningless piece of information you want. You need to know the particulars of the 1980 Presidential election? Wikipedia. You want to know the in-depth backstory of G-Man in Half Life? Wikipedia will tell you that as well. The latter may be called trivial by some, but I'm sure a lot of people have read it as well.
The fact that there ARE all these types of pages mean two things. People want to write them, and people want to read them. If wikipedia starts to delete them, there will be another wiki that will host them.
You could do a full output of a page with COBOL. I'd have to set up a COBOL environment for the specifics though. Normally it's just backend stuff, and you expose output via an RPC call or the like. But entirely possible to use it to generate a page directly.
Actually, what a lot of people don't realize, is a lot of these older languages are almost better for this sort of thing. They were designed for text based output. This was used for reporting back then, but barely more than trivial to retool it for an HTML or XML output as input into something else. If you ever used perl's formatting(using actual formats), COBOL's output isn't much different.
Take a platform that has no business doing something, mix in some 30 year old technology, and make it all work. It's a different kind of creativity than "let's use all this latest whizzbang stuff". When you can push a platform past what it was designed to do, and have it work, you've done something.
I've actually WRITTEN web backends in Fortran....how else are you going to make a pretty website with data that only sits on a 20 year old VAX?
I also did one site in Fortran just to see how it would work. Fortran write statements using formats, is a lot better than using C, I'll tell you that much.
This game has been marketed to death as some Will Wright masterpiece. What exactly has Will Wright done other than an early 80's game about building a city, and a game who's main purpose is to wash dishes and trap people in a pool?
I'm not saying Spore will be good or bad, but I'm not buying a game who's sole reason for hype is a guy who's managed to make two franchises and milk them to death in a way that makes Nintendo jealous.
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XP does the two things you really want an OS to do well. Run all the software you want, on the hardware you want. But XP is getting long in the tooth.
The market is going to things like these UMPCs. It's going to tablets and other exotic hardware. Windows is losing one of the two things here. Vista doesn't run at all on them. Microsoft's only answer is keep putting out XP. On these systems, even XP doesn't run on the hardware as well as Linux.
Next up is software. These aren't gaming PCs. Linux is running the software people want to run. Firefox, Pidgin for IMs, It plays media without hassles. It has an office suite. Toss wine on there, and it will even run Office. Look at all the solutions that mac users use to run a couple Windows programs on OSX. The market is coming around to just using emulation for that last 5% of Windows software they want or need to run.
If Windows loses the only two reasons people put up with it, why would they continue to run it? OEMs are seeing this as well, and are just putting out Linux machines. Dell is going "If people buying Apple machines will use Parallels to run Windows stuff they can't in OSX, why can't they just use Crossover to run them on Linux"? In a market like PC, that $20 they spend on that Windows license is $20 they can't lower the price to compete with others. That $20 is a difference in someone buying a Dell, and going elsewhere.
Windows may end up being a niche market, with business that just need native Windows for one reason or another. But considering they are losing the two reasons home users RUN Windows, and then the added headaches associated to running it, why are they going to continue to bother?
If you want a good F1 sim, you can get the MMG F1 mod for rFactor. For online racing, it's as good as it gets, and maybe better than what Codemasters will put out.
But like most things rFactor, offline racing is so-so. Offline racing isn't something modders usually concentrate on for mods, although rFactor itself CAN work well offline. That's one thing I don't think anything outside GP4 has brought to the table in recent years--good offline racing.
There are other games with current F1 cars.
Three examples I can think of are GT5 having Ferrari's 07 car, and both rFactor and Live For Speed both having BMW's.
EA signed Lewis Hamilton to a deal a while back, so I assume an F1 game with at least McLaren would be in the works--nothing has been announced as of yet however.
As far as tracks go, I think the F1 license covers all use of tracks used by the F1 Championship. However, the tracks are also free to be in other games. Various games over the years have had licensed versions of tracks, from Monza to Suzuka.
Depending on where you buy the laptop, there is also included software that isn't "free".
For instance, I believe the Dell's come with DVD playing software, and something to support mp3. Yes, it's trivial to just download the software on your own through even the official means. But it's also a legal grey area.
Will they stop pointing fingers and actually attempt to fix Ubuntu killing hard drives on laptops?
I boot Ubuntu on this laptop, and it sounds like there's a midget inside of my laptop with a Nintendo Zapper. "clicka clicka clicka" every other minute.
The "fix" of just turning off all power management isn't a fix.
As good as World of Warcraft is for some people, a lot of people I know that used to play it just had enough of it. You play the same game for years, you tend to get bored of it, new content or not.
World of Warcraft won't be going anywhere for at least another couple years, but I'd expect at least either AoC or Warhammer to get into the millions of users and take a chunk out of WoW's userbase.
Is this better or worse than requiring a CD in the drive to play? Update: 05/07 17:17 GMT by T : According to a message from Technical Producer Derek French (may require a scroll-down) on the Bioware forums, there is indeed an internet connection required, but only for activation, not for all future play.
Yes, activation which will happen every 10 days.
That's the most beautiful thing these eyes have ever seen....well except for Marge, when she wears that blue thing with the things.
Yeah, I'm a fan of the show. It's one of those shows that doesn't take itself THAT seriously, without being corny.
And yes, he always makes nifty spy stuff with various things. Not quite MacGyver, but in the same ballpark.
I can sue ISPs, if they won't install software I wrote to protect copyrights that I owe? Wow, if there was every an answer to..
..this is it!
1) Write software to protect your copyrights
2) sue ISPs when they call shenanigans
3) PROFIT!!
It seems like you have an idea of what you want this class to be. The idea isn't to just pick a text because it's "good". It's to pick a book that has the same ideas you want to teach. You may find a "good" textbook, and just don't believe in certain philosophies in the book. You don't want to keep having to go "well, it's like this in the book, but it's better to do it my way". If you've fleshed out your ideas into actual lesson plans, it may just be better to bypass a book, and strictly go on course notes. Like I said, the main factor in this will be finding a book that melds with what you want to do.
Books people have mentioned, such as the ORA books, ARE good references. But they aren't text books, and it probably isn't a good idea to use them like one.
My suggestion, would be to read though some of the options here. However, if none match with what you planned, good course notes and classroom time would be the better idea. Especially if there are ideas that a book present that go against what you are teaching. You don't want students that have two conflicting ideas about a topic.
That isn't to say that IPv6 support couldn't be improved however.
It works fine if you just want it to autoconfig. But really anything more than that requires a drop to the commandline.
Vista did had better support for IPv6, you can configure it the same way you currently do IPv4.
Although I wish they put in an option in either XP or Vista to prefer an IPv6 route over a IPv4 if both are available. That is, without having to manually muck around with the routing tables via netsh.
I've had many classes at two different institutions.
I've never had a class that actually used the system. At best, they would put a syllabus on the website. MAYBE they would even put a grade or two. And the classes that I had that put grades up, it would be like the first homework grade and nothing else.
For all the money schools put into buying and maintaining these systems, it seems like it's not for any purpose.
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The only reason I keep XP around is for gaming anyways. I'm figuring by the time XP really goes the way of the dodo, the 3d support for Windows applications will be there. If that's some version of virtualization, or wine having DX9 support completely that's what I'll use. Both of these options are "mostly there" now. VMware does some 3D, and wine can run a lot of DX9 stuff, just not what I need.
I used Vista, and I don't really like it. I like Ubuntu, but there are some things like games, that it doesn't run. I feel choosing the OS, then the applications is like putting the cart before the horse. When I can run rFactor(a PC driving sim) in Linux, I can migrate to it. I fully believe I'll be able to do this before XP is dead.
Just because some random people determine something is "trival" doesn't mean it is.
There are a lot of things that are marked as such, that I don't think they are. Episode lists of TV shows for instance. Watch a show, want to know what season it was in, Wikipedia can tell you...at least for now.
I've always considered that the whole IDEA of Wikipedia. A site with every meaningful and meaningless piece of information you want. You need to know the particulars of the 1980 Presidential election? Wikipedia. You want to know the in-depth backstory of G-Man in Half Life? Wikipedia will tell you that as well. The latter may be called trivial by some, but I'm sure a lot of people have read it as well.
The fact that there ARE all these types of pages mean two things. People want to write them, and people want to read them. If wikipedia starts to delete them, there will be another wiki that will host them.
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You could do a full output of a page with COBOL. I'd have to set up a COBOL environment for the specifics though. Normally it's just backend stuff, and you expose output via an RPC call or the like. But entirely possible to use it to generate a page directly.
Actually, what a lot of people don't realize, is a lot of these older languages are almost better for this sort of thing. They were designed for text based output. This was used for reporting back then, but barely more than trivial to retool it for an HTML or XML output as input into something else. If you ever used perl's formatting(using actual formats), COBOL's output isn't much different.
HA, if I didn't already post in this article, I'd have rated you +1 funny
Another way to do it, is to start naming variables after html blocks, set them to format lines, then you can do something like this...
write(*,p)'hello world'
write(*,bold)'this is in bold'
Ahhh yes...but that's the fun of it all.
Take a platform that has no business doing something, mix in some 30 year old technology, and make it all work. It's a different kind of creativity than "let's use all this latest whizzbang stuff". When you can push a platform past what it was designed to do, and have it work, you've done something.
I've actually WRITTEN web backends in Fortran....how else are you going to make a pretty website with data that only sits on a 20 year old VAX?
I also did one site in Fortran just to see how it would work. Fortran write statements using formats, is a lot better than using C, I'll tell you that much.
This game has been marketed to death as some Will Wright masterpiece. What exactly has Will Wright done other than an early 80's game about building a city, and a game who's main purpose is to wash dishes and trap people in a pool?
I'm not saying Spore will be good or bad, but I'm not buying a game who's sole reason for hype is a guy who's managed to make two franchises and milk them to death in a way that makes Nintendo jealous.
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