It strikes me as a bit silly that they're banning virtual entertainment when they seem quite happy starting a war about a football match! (or should I say 'soccer' - I was forgetting you yankees hijacked the name 'football'!)
My Mum plays Frozen Bubble and a bunch of card games under Linux Mandrake 8.2 every night after work. She loves the cool games and the reliability of Linux - our computer locks up all the time under Windows XP but never under Linux.
I found profiling with gprof a tremendous help when optimising a computational chemistry program written as part of my master's degree project. I found that one particular function was occupying 98% of the computation time; some careful loop optimisations here and there in that function produced a massive 40% performance gain. Useless my arse!
My folks bought me a NEX II player for Christmas, and it's a wonderful little gadget. The sound quality is excellent, the LCD display is very clear, and it works like a charm. Well, it worked like a charm until I decided to update the firmware. I downloaded the 1.4c version and installed it exactly as described in the README. After installing the update and transferring across some MP3s, I found that when I played a song it played nothing but a constant monotone bleep, and the player locked up, needing the batteries to be removed to reset it. I reinstalled the firmware update once again, but now it won't even boot up further than the splash screen! I emailed tech support a week ago and they still haven't got back to me... The moral of the story - if it ain't broke, don't fix it...
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It strikes me as a bit silly that they're banning virtual entertainment when they seem quite happy starting a war about a football match! (or should I say 'soccer' - I was forgetting you yankees hijacked the name 'football'!)
My Mum plays Frozen Bubble and a bunch of card games under Linux Mandrake 8.2 every night after work. She loves the cool games and the reliability of Linux - our computer locks up all the time under Windows XP but never under Linux.
I found profiling with gprof a tremendous help when optimising a computational chemistry program written as part of my master's degree project. I found that one particular function was occupying 98% of the computation time; some careful loop optimisations here and there in that function produced a massive 40% performance gain. Useless my arse!
Chris Empson
My folks bought me a NEX II player for Christmas, and it's a wonderful little gadget. The sound quality is excellent, the LCD display is very clear, and it works like a charm. Well, it worked like a charm until I decided to update the firmware. I downloaded the 1.4c version and installed it exactly as described in the README. After installing the update and transferring across some MP3s, I found that when I played a song it played nothing but a constant monotone bleep, and the player locked up, needing the batteries to be removed to reset it. I reinstalled the firmware update once again, but now it won't even boot up further than the splash screen! I emailed tech support a week ago and they still haven't got back to me... The moral of the story - if it ain't broke, don't fix it...