Actually, we just call it Madison. We call other campuses by their city name. (Eau Claire, Milwaukee, Stout, Whitewater...etc) Nobody I've known calls it UW unless they're describing the campus they go to (ie UWEC, UWM, UWSP)...or they go to Madison, and think they're special because they consume more beer than the rest of us. Normally, the follow up to "I go (went) to UW" is "which one?".
Steam is all well and good for those of you with traditional Cable or DSL connections who can "set it and forget it" when it comes to downloading large applications. Those of us doomed to wallow around the mire with Satellite connections realize that downloading larger files can be a nightmare. Steam patches take days for me to download if Steam can connect at all, and I pretty much have had to give up online gaming until I can relocate to civilized territory again. I don't see games vanishing from brick and mortar stores any more than CD's have "vanished". Though...I was very dissapointed with HL2's packaging...not even a case for the 5 discs...and I still couldn't play it for 3 days.
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Actually, we just call it Madison. We call other campuses by their city name. (Eau Claire, Milwaukee, Stout, Whitewater...etc) Nobody I've known calls it UW unless they're describing the campus they go to (ie UWEC, UWM, UWSP)...or they go to Madison, and think they're special because they consume more beer than the rest of us. Normally, the follow up to "I go (went) to UW" is "which one?".
Steam is all well and good for those of you with traditional Cable or DSL connections who can "set it and forget it" when it comes to downloading large applications. Those of us doomed to wallow around the mire with Satellite connections realize that downloading larger files can be a nightmare. Steam patches take days for me to download if Steam can connect at all, and I pretty much have had to give up online gaming until I can relocate to civilized territory again. I don't see games vanishing from brick and mortar stores any more than CD's have "vanished". Though...I was very dissapointed with HL2's packaging...not even a case for the 5 discs...and I still couldn't play it for 3 days.
They're still working on improving it. http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/meet/html/d.3 .html
There's little proof other than old wives tales about the Dvorak's superiority that prove that QWERTY was designed to slow typists down...
This newest release didn't seem to want to load properly, and it corrupted the previous install. So I'm back to 0.8 for the time being. :/