I never got into the Windy Dale games, but the Baldur's Gate games work just fine on my Vista-running laptop (and in XP before I installed Vista). Windy Dale II still uses the Infinity Engine just like Baldur's Gate (though obviously updated), so I'm surprised it doesn't work for you.
I played the first Icewind Dale and it worked fine. Also, those hacked video drivers you used fixed problems for me, but ended up disabling the keyboard brightness and volume controls on my keyboard.
I couldn't play Icewind Dale II in Windows XP. There are issues with many laptop input drivers screwing with the keyboard in that game. I couldn't resolve the problem, so I switched to linux, copied the Icewind Dale II directory, which was patched and had a no-CD crack, and it runs swimmingly. The only issue is that my linux cursor still shows on top of the game, but I rarely notice it.
I also remember trying to play Escape From Monkey Island(tm) in Windows XP, but there was this one part of the game that you couldn't get past (rowing up to Pegnose Pete's swamp shack). When playing The Curse of Monkey Island(tm), the cut-scenes would blaze past in seconds. I had to install Windows 98 to play the games. Compatibility mode didn't cut it. Other games that won't work in XP are Myst and Riven.
Laptop drivers are a bitch in Windows, and so I blame laptop manufacturers like Sony and Dell for making quirky hardware that need special drivers. I blame Microsoft for allowing such stupid driver issues to exist. Finally, I blame the developers for not using the APIs that they're supposed to be using, like DirectX, OpenGL, or SDL.
I thought the Beatles were on iTunes. I seem to remember getting a newsletter with a lot of Beatles albums that were new. I'm not using Windows now, so I cannot check.
A well-rounded education is certainly much more satisfying in the long run. Personally, I see no fulfillment in just writing code forever. I like to be stimulated into the thinking of unique solutions or work on unique problems. Python in a Nutshell doesn't help with that, so that's why I took 'Introduction to Compilers', 'Modern Operating Systems', 'Introduction to Computer Networks', and 'Computer Security'. I don't care if it ends up being less profitable. What I loved about computer science was the learning and stimulating classwork. Not learning new languages.
Though I do commend the original poster's decision to learn Python. I've never had trouble with C, but I have a friend who did. He borrowed my copy of The C Programming Language (Kernighan, Ritchie), which is required reading I'll have you know. He went through it in a weekend and was a different man. On the topic of languages, my favorites in order are C++ (most liked), Python, C.
I was looking at the O'Reilly page for this book. Under the review section, there are two reviews: 3/5 and 5/5. The page claims the average is 5/5. Let's see, (3/5 + 5/5)/2 = ((3+5)/5)/2 = (8/5)/2 = 8/10 = 5/5. Oh, their math is right. Never mind.
They're passive aggressively saying that Apple and Nokia are a-holes. At least that's what it looks like to me, since I now have a chip on my shoulder that probably will never leave.
Why do people have a problem with compatibility? It's just more do what you feel mentality, which has screwed us over already with the varying implementations of HTML4/CSS2.1/JavaScript support between browsers. I thought this kind of crap was supposed to end at some point.
I know Python, would like to learn Perl, and don't and won't learn Ruby. Ruby fills the same niche as Python, but I like Python's language and documentation more. When I heard about what Catalyst had to offer developers over Rails, my desire (small as it was) to learn Ruby just got the nails in its coffin. I heard a really interesting podcast on FLOSS Monthly with Jay Shirley, a Catalyst proponent.
(Side note: The page I link to actually uses the word 'evangelist'. I just looked up the meaning of 'evangelist' for curiosity's sake, and it means, in Latin, a person who brings the word of God. Notice that the word contains 'angel'. In this light, using 'evangelist' to describe a proponent of anything not considered holy is sacrilege. If this isn't bothersome to you, then this note simply doesn't concern you:).)
Also tear gas, rubber bullets, flash bangs, and other forms of crowd control. Riot cops are the real terrorists and menace to our way of life. Please....
That closure problem only really exists in IE. I once made a closure loop for fun, and I quickly lost control of the computer. SeaMonkey handled it nicely, though. (I'm not sure about konqueror or Opera.)
I wish that even if they included an OS, they make you install it yourself. I swear it would change lives. I once wanted to upgrade my installation of XP Home to XP Pro because I got a copy through my school. Bad idea. Laptop drivers are usually laptop-specific. I had to install Sony's drivers manually, and that meant that I had to use the disc I created from the hidden partition as well as certain drivers from the website. Among the drivers found only on the website: network drivers. The installation process for the drivers was also really confusing because of dependencies. Some dependencies weren't even indicated. It either worked or it didn't.
If laptop manufacturers made you install it yourself, they would certainly make the driver installation process easier. Just one disc. Plug it in, everything gets installed at once, restart, done. None of this 'run 23487DFK8.EXE, restart, run IDFJ8374D.EXE, restart,...'
This is not off topic. The only thing off topic is the story. How does some story about Cheney and impeachment have anything to do with Slashdot? It is not news for nerds. It is news for liberal psychos (like the tag says).
CPython is the 1TP (one true python; see 1TBS). I've never given any thought to any other implementations, so it's natural for me to forget about them.
What might be okay is if there's a Python interface to.NET or Java. For example, there is a way to call the POSIX open(2) or stat(2) from within Python. Or maybe building a way to write simpler glue code between python and C# or Java. But to re-implement it just for the sake of speed and at the cost of correctness is bad. This is why I hate IronPython and Jython. But though I hate the idea of them, they are OSS and probably are doing the best that they can to work identically to the real Python. I can't say so much for Microsoft's JScript.
I just read about Stackless, and it seems okay: a patched version of Python to handle threading better. Guido van Rossum said in an interview that one thing he dislikes about Python is the way it handles threading, and it's one of the things that will be improved in py3k. There's probably an okay explanation for it, but I don't know why Stackless isn't just a Python module and why it has to be a full-blown patch.
I paid nothing because I think I might get the box set. If I don't, guilt will persuade me to go back to their non-linux-working website and pay them something. If that ends up happening, I'll pay them the meager amount they should be getting. I think they're taking advantage of the roads laid by the record companies (as much as I dislike them), and claiming to have done it on their own.
I was thinking about this before, and Python would be totally doable. The reason I want it is because it already has a single implementation. All of the extensions that would need to exist to work well with browsers could be managed by a single group, so you won't have to code for three different implementations. I once wrote some JS that was harmless. It worked fine in Mozilla, but in IE it took hold of my CPU and filled up my swap as fast as my hard drive could go. Damn closures.
Also, I would love to have a real threading model to use in web pages. I'm doing a lot of JavaScript right now, and I really miss the days of threads, mutexes, and condition variables. You can still do all that stuff, but it such a horrid mess.
As he's Icelandic, it's probably more proper to call him Dr. Eyjólfur. In Iceland, they still have the Scandinavian tradition of having your last name be that of your father. So my children in Iceland would have last names Marksson and my sister Marksdóttir. Thus it is not a family name in the same sense as usual European last names are family names. In fact, Icelandic phone books list people by their first name, then last name.
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I played the first Icewind Dale and it worked fine. Also, those hacked video drivers you used fixed problems for me, but ended up disabling the keyboard brightness and volume controls on my keyboard.
I couldn't play Icewind Dale II in Windows XP. There are issues with many laptop input drivers screwing with the keyboard in that game. I couldn't resolve the problem, so I switched to linux, copied the Icewind Dale II directory, which was patched and had a no-CD crack, and it runs swimmingly. The only issue is that my linux cursor still shows on top of the game, but I rarely notice it.
I also remember trying to play Escape From Monkey Island(tm) in Windows XP, but there was this one part of the game that you couldn't get past (rowing up to Pegnose Pete's swamp shack). When playing The Curse of Monkey Island(tm), the cut-scenes would blaze past in seconds. I had to install Windows 98 to play the games. Compatibility mode didn't cut it. Other games that won't work in XP are Myst and Riven.
Laptop drivers are a bitch in Windows, and so I blame laptop manufacturers like Sony and Dell for making quirky hardware that need special drivers. I blame Microsoft for allowing such stupid driver issues to exist. Finally, I blame the developers for not using the APIs that they're supposed to be using, like DirectX, OpenGL, or SDL.
Doing further research on news.google.com, I see that Beatles never was on iTunes. Come to think of it, it was Led Zeppelin. Apologies.
I thought the Beatles were on iTunes. I seem to remember getting a newsletter with a lot of Beatles albums that were new. I'm not using Windows now, so I cannot check.
What's a wireless bus? Is wireless ethernet next?
A well-rounded education is certainly much more satisfying in the long run. Personally, I see no fulfillment in just writing code forever. I like to be stimulated into the thinking of unique solutions or work on unique problems. Python in a Nutshell doesn't help with that, so that's why I took 'Introduction to Compilers', 'Modern Operating Systems', 'Introduction to Computer Networks', and 'Computer Security'. I don't care if it ends up being less profitable. What I loved about computer science was the learning and stimulating classwork. Not learning new languages.
Though I do commend the original poster's decision to learn Python. I've never had trouble with C, but I have a friend who did. He borrowed my copy of The C Programming Language (Kernighan, Ritchie), which is required reading I'll have you know. He went through it in a weekend and was a different man. On the topic of languages, my favorites in order are C++ (most liked), Python, C.
Thanks for the link. I tried looking for a man page first.
I was looking at the O'Reilly page for this book. Under the review section, there are two reviews: 3/5 and 5/5. The page claims the average is 5/5. Let's see, (3/5 + 5/5)/2 = ((3+5)/5)/2 = (8/5)/2 = 8/10 = 5/5. Oh, their math is right. Never mind.
Also DOM.
They're passive aggressively saying that Apple and Nokia are a-holes. At least that's what it looks like to me, since I now have a chip on my shoulder that probably will never leave.
Why do people have a problem with compatibility? It's just more do what you feel mentality, which has screwed us over already with the varying implementations of HTML4/CSS2.1/JavaScript support between browsers. I thought this kind of crap was supposed to end at some point.
I was using dictionary.com, and it only offered Latin. It seems difficult to find out the original meaning of words now instead of the popular usage.
I know Python, would like to learn Perl, and don't and won't learn Ruby. Ruby fills the same niche as Python, but I like Python's language and documentation more. When I heard about what Catalyst had to offer developers over Rails, my desire (small as it was) to learn Ruby just got the nails in its coffin. I heard a really interesting podcast on FLOSS Monthly with Jay Shirley, a Catalyst proponent.
(Side note: The page I link to actually uses the word 'evangelist'. I just looked up the meaning of 'evangelist' for curiosity's sake, and it means, in Latin, a person who brings the word of God. Notice that the word contains 'angel'. In this light, using 'evangelist' to describe a proponent of anything not considered holy is sacrilege. If this isn't bothersome to you, then this note simply doesn't concern you :).)
Also tear gas, rubber bullets, flash bangs, and other forms of crowd control. Riot cops are the real terrorists and menace to our way of life. Please....
Why don't we just make every second 0.000019013243% longer? Seems simple enough to me.
(By the way, that's 1/(600*365.2425*24), where 365.2425 is the average days per year over a period of 400 years.)
That closure problem only really exists in IE. I once made a closure loop for fun, and I quickly lost control of the computer. SeaMonkey handled it nicely, though. (I'm not sure about konqueror or Opera.)
I wish that even if they included an OS, they make you install it yourself. I swear it would change lives. I once wanted to upgrade my installation of XP Home to XP Pro because I got a copy through my school. Bad idea. Laptop drivers are usually laptop-specific. I had to install Sony's drivers manually, and that meant that I had to use the disc I created from the hidden partition as well as certain drivers from the website. Among the drivers found only on the website: network drivers. The installation process for the drivers was also really confusing because of dependencies. Some dependencies weren't even indicated. It either worked or it didn't.
If laptop manufacturers made you install it yourself, they would certainly make the driver installation process easier. Just one disc. Plug it in, everything gets installed at once, restart, done. None of this 'run 23487DFK8.EXE, restart, run IDFJ8374D.EXE, restart, ...'
This is not off topic. The only thing off topic is the story. How does some story about Cheney and impeachment have anything to do with Slashdot? It is not news for nerds. It is news for liberal psychos (like the tag says).
News for nerds?
CPython is the 1TP (one true python; see 1TBS). I've never given any thought to any other implementations, so it's natural for me to forget about them.
.NET or Java. For example, there is a way to call the POSIX open(2) or stat(2) from within Python. Or maybe building a way to write simpler glue code between python and C# or Java. But to re-implement it just for the sake of speed and at the cost of correctness is bad. This is why I hate IronPython and Jython. But though I hate the idea of them, they are OSS and probably are doing the best that they can to work identically to the real Python. I can't say so much for Microsoft's JScript.
What might be okay is if there's a Python interface to
I just read about Stackless, and it seems okay: a patched version of Python to handle threading better. Guido van Rossum said in an interview that one thing he dislikes about Python is the way it handles threading, and it's one of the things that will be improved in py3k. There's probably an okay explanation for it, but I don't know why Stackless isn't just a Python module and why it has to be a full-blown patch.
I paid nothing because I think I might get the box set. If I don't, guilt will persuade me to go back to their non-linux-working website and pay them something. If that ends up happening, I'll pay them the meager amount they should be getting. I think they're taking advantage of the roads laid by the record companies (as much as I dislike them), and claiming to have done it on their own.
Today, I'm going to acquire some coffee.
I was thinking about this before, and Python would be totally doable. The reason I want it is because it already has a single implementation. All of the extensions that would need to exist to work well with browsers could be managed by a single group, so you won't have to code for three different implementations. I once wrote some JS that was harmless. It worked fine in Mozilla, but in IE it took hold of my CPU and filled up my swap as fast as my hard drive could go. Damn closures.
Also, I would love to have a real threading model to use in web pages. I'm doing a lot of JavaScript right now, and I really miss the days of threads, mutexes, and condition variables. You can still do all that stuff, but it such a horrid mess.
I mean that my daughter would be Marksdóttir. Certainly not sister and daughter.
As he's Icelandic, it's probably more proper to call him Dr. Eyjólfur. In Iceland, they still have the Scandinavian tradition of having your last name be that of your father. So my children in Iceland would have last names Marksson and my sister Marksdóttir. Thus it is not a family name in the same sense as usual European last names are family names. In fact, Icelandic phone books list people by their first name, then last name.
Eve Online, though. Interesting.
when the developers say to run etc-update, they mean it