Where, exactly? If you expect classes in English, then you betta' stay/study in the USA.
I'm from Denmark, and I graduated in computer science a few months ago from the University of Aarhus. All courses after the first year are required to be thought in English. Heck, we use American textbooks in most of our second and third year courses. But hey, if you ever come to Denmark, then don't spend all your time studying. That's not what going abroad for 6-12 months is all about. Make some new friends, go drinking and partying, pass your courses of courses, and come home with something cool to put on your CV:)
Windows NT 3.x = kernel version 3.x Windows NT 4 = kernel version 4 Windows 2000 = kernel version 5 Windows XP = kernel version 5.1 Windows Vista = kernel version 6 Windows 7 = kernel version 7
Your explanation is the first one I've read that I can fully agree with. Yes, it's based purely on version numbering of the NT kernel. The current kernel in Vista is version 6, and the next one will likely become version 7 before final release. How many releases each line of the windows operating system has had is a irrelevant (and boring) discussion.
Yeah, let us blame Microsoft for all the crappy windows drivers out there instead of the hardware manufacturers. The fact that it works in Linux is just another indication that it is the drivers that are the issue.
I felt like answering your points since you post is currently at Score:3, Insightful.
* The need to install a game on your hard disk. Why can my Gamecube run any game within seconds of plopping the CD in and turning it on? This is the only one of your points I agree on. In the old days, you often had the choice to do a minimal install. I guess most people don't see the point with increasingly cheap hard drives and plenty of free space.
* The horribly slow and ugly process of switching from the Windows desktop to full screen. Seriously, last time I experienced this was back when I still only had 512 MB ram (3-4 years ago). Sounds more like windows is swapping a lot of data in and out. Put some more ram in your system. 2 GB should be enough for almost anything.
* Occasionally some stupid popup (like an instant message or a warning about my swap space running low) will force the game out of full-screen mode and back to the desktop. This is just stupid. Upgrade your messenger (or whatever IM you use) to a recent version that does not do this, or simply disable it while gaming.
* The occasional background process causes the game to stutter or jump slightly every once in a while. Granted, games runs better when fewer processes competes for the system resources, but I actually haven't seen this problem at all on any recent dual core system. I'm not even talking high end PCs here.
* I've rarely ever seen a 3D, or even a 2D game on the PC that has consistent smooth moving animation and scrolling at the refresh rate of the monitor with no tearing Your computer must be crappy. I've never seen this problem with "sync to refresh" enabled, which is a standard option in most games. I've been enabling this option in games since before Quake 3!
* No matter how good your hardware, a game will always give you the impression that something needs upgrading (see the stuttering phenomenon mentioned above) Only if you configuration is always lacking to whatever is considered "good enough". I mean, I don't play the newest games myself. I'm usually a few generations behind. Right now I'm playing games in the Orange Box on a mediocre laptop (with Core Duo, 2 GB ram and ATi X1400 graphics), and everything runs smoothly. Any mediocre laptop today (with better than intel graphics obviously) will do fine, unless you expect it to run Crysis or anything like that. I can even run UT3 smoothly on low to medium settings if I wanted to, so this isn't even a case of new games not scaling well either.
Eve Online definitely has performance issues as well - not just on the server cluster, but also client side. The UI has always been somewhat slow, and the client has trouble handling many ships in battle. Considering the somewhat dated graphics in the "classic client", this is hardly an issue with the graphics engine alone. Patches from the last year or so has helped the situation somewhat, and as people get faster machines, it becomes less of an issue.
Actually, there is no need to hack a DS to run homebrew software on it. All you need is an unofficial flash card to boot the software from. The most popular device is the Revolution 4 / M3. It stores the software on a microSD card and fits right into the DS game slot.
Like many others I waited until the last minute with the registration. I've always been mostly a lurker, so I didn't really need at first. I think I started to read slashdot a few months after it opened back in 1997. I got the url from a computer magazine back when people still read those on paper. This is actually my second account on slashdot. To this day I still haven't figured out the password for my initial slashdot account, and of course I have no idea which email I used to create it. It's still a 5-digit account though, so it wouldn't change much:)
"but the idea of paying a subscription fee for content that will be available "as we go along" has got to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard"
I take it you've never heard of World of Warcraft then?
Except that wow patches are free for everyone (even non-subscribers), and you are actually paying for access to their online world. Besides, you are still paying for expansions on top of the subscription.
Well actually, he was later told by a "Best Buy employee that they were told the same thing -- the locking up and freezing was intentional." It probably still came from somewhere near the bottom of the food chain, so I agree it's not a big deal.
Actually, a B-movie is just a movie produced on a low budget. I lot of people fail to understand that, thinking that the "B" has something to do with a grading system. I have friends who insist on calling crappy movies they don't like "B-movies", even if these movies are very expensive Hollywood productions (they are often right about the quality of the story and the acting, however). The same thing obviously goes for games: the cost of production does not necesarely relate to the quality of the gaming experience.
>One of the only filesharing sites able to stick it to the man. Even after dealing with police.
I don't know about that. They lost their battle in Sweden and moved to the Netherlands. Most other torrent-sites just give up when they first get closed down. I would like to see TPB spark more debate about copyright issues, but it hasn't really happened yet in the general media (except for in Sweden maybe).
I'm pretty sure Windows 98 was originally named Windows 97 and later renamed. Of course you could argue that Windows 97 was the code name, which is always changed before release.
That's because what used to be called USB 1.1 is now called USB 2.0. USB 2.0 "high speed" is the fast version, and very few USB flash drives are high speed.
>There's no genuine anger about the cartoons. They were published 6 months ago.
Not only that, most people rioting hasn't even seen the cartoons. And in some cases, they have been told that the cartoons were much worse than what was actually the case (depicting Mohammed as a pig or as having sex). Few of them now what was actually published. Also, they were published only 3 months ago, but most people here in Denmark had forgotten about them until a few weeks ago.
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Let me just add Peter Naur to that list since I'm Danish myself :)
Where, exactly? If you expect classes in English, then you betta' stay/study in the USA.
I'm from Denmark, and I graduated in computer science a few months ago from the University of Aarhus. All courses after the first year are required to be thought in English. Heck, we use American textbooks in most of our second and third year courses. But hey, if you ever come to Denmark, then don't spend all your time studying. That's not what going abroad for 6-12 months is all about. Make some new friends, go drinking and partying, pass your courses of courses, and come home with something cool to put on your CV :)
Windows NT 3.x = kernel version 3.x
Windows NT 4 = kernel version 4
Windows 2000 = kernel version 5
Windows XP = kernel version 5.1
Windows Vista = kernel version 6
Windows 7 = kernel version 7
Your explanation is the first one I've read that I can fully agree with. Yes, it's based purely on version numbering of the NT kernel. The current kernel in Vista is version 6, and the next one will likely become version 7 before final release. How many releases each line of the windows operating system has had is a irrelevant (and boring) discussion.
Actually it's released on WiiWare first. The other releases are ports.
SCEI published plenty of games. Games like Gran Turismo and Arc the Lad among others.
Yeah, let us blame Microsoft for all the crappy windows drivers out there instead of the hardware manufacturers. The fact that it works in Linux is just another indication that it is the drivers that are the issue.
I felt like answering your points since you post is currently at Score:3, Insightful.
* The need to install a game on your hard disk. Why can my Gamecube run any game within seconds of plopping the CD in and turning it on?
This is the only one of your points I agree on. In the old days, you often had the choice to do a minimal install. I guess most people don't see the point with increasingly cheap hard drives and plenty of free space.
* The horribly slow and ugly process of switching from the Windows desktop to full screen.
Seriously, last time I experienced this was back when I still only had 512 MB ram (3-4 years ago). Sounds more like windows is swapping a lot of data in and out. Put some more ram in your system. 2 GB should be enough for almost anything.
* Occasionally some stupid popup (like an instant message or a warning about my swap space running low) will force the game out of full-screen mode and back to the desktop.
This is just stupid. Upgrade your messenger (or whatever IM you use) to a recent version that does not do this, or simply disable it while gaming.
* The occasional background process causes the game to stutter or jump slightly every once in a while.
Granted, games runs better when fewer processes competes for the system resources, but I actually haven't seen this problem at all on any recent dual core system. I'm not even talking high end PCs here.
* I've rarely ever seen a 3D, or even a 2D game on the PC that has consistent smooth moving animation and scrolling at the refresh rate of the monitor with no tearing
Your computer must be crappy. I've never seen this problem with "sync to refresh" enabled, which is a standard option in most games. I've been enabling this option in games since before Quake 3!
* No matter how good your hardware, a game will always give you the impression that something needs upgrading (see the stuttering phenomenon mentioned above)
Only if you configuration is always lacking to whatever is considered "good enough". I mean, I don't play the newest games myself. I'm usually a few generations behind. Right now I'm playing games in the Orange Box on a mediocre laptop (with Core Duo, 2 GB ram and ATi X1400 graphics), and everything runs smoothly. Any mediocre laptop today (with better than intel graphics obviously) will do fine, unless you expect it to run Crysis or anything like that. I can even run UT3 smoothly on low to medium settings if I wanted to, so this isn't even a case of new games not scaling well either.
Eve Online definitely has performance issues as well - not just on the server cluster, but also client side. The UI has always been somewhat slow, and the client has trouble handling many ships in battle. Considering the somewhat dated graphics in the "classic client", this is hardly an issue with the graphics engine alone. Patches from the last year or so has helped the situation somewhat, and as people get faster machines, it becomes less of an issue.
Actually, there is no need to hack a DS to run homebrew software on it. All you need is an unofficial flash card to boot the software from. The most popular device is the Revolution 4 / M3. It stores the software on a microSD card and fits right into the DS game slot.
Like many others I waited until the last minute with the registration. I've always been mostly a lurker, so I didn't really need at first. I think I started to read slashdot a few months after it opened back in 1997. I got the url from a computer magazine back when people still read those on paper. This is actually my second account on slashdot. To this day I still haven't figured out the password for my initial slashdot account, and of course I have no idea which email I used to create it. It's still a 5-digit account though, so it wouldn't change much :)
Wasn't the Firehose supposed to weed out stuff like this? What went wrong?
"but the idea of paying a subscription fee for content that will be available "as we go along" has got to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard"
I take it you've never heard of World of Warcraft then?
Except that wow patches are free for everyone (even non-subscribers), and you are actually paying for access to their online world. Besides, you are still paying for expansions on top of the subscription.
>Infact, less than 10% of people with an IQ above 120 have any faith/religous belief.
:)
It's not that I don't believe you or anything, but do you have any sources for that statement?
Well actually, he was later told by a "Best Buy employee that they were told the same thing -- the locking up and freezing was intentional." It probably still came from somewhere near the bottom of the food chain, so I agree it's not a big deal.
And what are you basing that claim on? 256 colours went out of fashion quite a while ago.
Actually, a B-movie is just a movie produced on a low budget. I lot of people fail to understand that, thinking that the "B" has something to do with a grading system. I have friends who insist on calling crappy movies they don't like "B-movies", even if these movies are very expensive Hollywood productions (they are often right about the quality of the story and the acting, however). The same thing obviously goes for games: the cost of production does not necesarely relate to the quality of the gaming experience.
Yes, because no one else would have a clue. It's just so hard to guess!
Nice try, but that is just citing a reference (which is always the polite thing to do!). I think the quote stands well on it's own.
>One of the only filesharing sites able to stick it to the man. Even after dealing with police.
I don't know about that. They lost their battle in Sweden and moved to the Netherlands. Most other torrent-sites just give up when they first get closed down. I would like to see TPB spark more debate about copyright issues, but it hasn't really happened yet in the general media (except for in Sweden maybe).
I'm pretty sure Windows 98 was originally named Windows 97 and later renamed. Of course you could argue that Windows 97 was the code name, which is always changed before release.
The official windows version is more than ready for windows xp. Just go google it - search for abandonware.
That's because what used to be called USB 1.1 is now called USB 2.0. USB 2.0 "high speed" is the fast version, and very few USB flash drives are high speed.
>There's no genuine anger about the cartoons. They were published 6 months ago.
Not only that, most people rioting hasn't even seen the cartoons. And in some cases, they have been told that the cartoons were much worse than what was actually the case (depicting Mohammed as a pig or as having sex). Few of them now what was actually published. Also, they were published only 3 months ago, but most people here in Denmark had forgotten about them until a few weeks ago.
No, it's peer to peer system using public/private key pairs. You only use a central server when identifying yourself to the network at logon.
>The real story is:
... just using linux instead.
>you + webcam input + gesture recognition + musical interpretation + physical sound model = rock'n'roll!
Kinda like what you can already do with the Eye-toy thing for Playstation 2 really