> Which OS market ? There's more than one.

I agree.

However splitting the market by chip makes no sense to anyone except microsoft as it gives them a get out clause.

Windows is windows regardless of which chip it is running on! Allowing them to do things they otherwise would not just becase its not x86 is ridiculous. How come they cannot do what they want with x64 windows? It is also not x86. (and please don't try to excuse things by backwards compatibility, they could put a layer in arm windows if they wanted. Yes it would be slow but it is certainly possible).

> For instance, I hardly ever use my video player non-fullscreen, so I can see the idea here.

This has got me thinking.

Can someone please clarify something for me?

Can you run a "metro" all (for instance VLC) on one screen and run the desktop and associated apps on another. I usually have vlc full screen, but on a second monitor.

You were making sense up until this point.

Old cars rusted and the engine wore out. On the other hand modern engines tend to go forever and the cars no longer rust due to the materials used. However if you don't look after the rest then the car will become useless but that is true of any mechanical device which needs regular servicing to keep running, this was true then as well just that the car engine would die or the car rust away first!

Of course you could only be 16, in which case your other points did not make sense (20+ years) as very modern cars seem to have added a lot of unnececery nonsence that appears just to have been added to go wrong and be so expensive to fix you may as well buy another car.

What's with all the language negativity?

It's all the same but different anyway.

A proper developer can just pick up whatever.

My first exposure to OO.

Boss says you will be upgrading this. it's in OO Pascal. (DOS based, can;t remeber much else now)

My first exposure to c++.

Boss says. You will be writing a new app in this.

My first exposure to VB(5)

Boss says here you go write something in this. it will be using a touch screen.

95% of languages are pretty easy to pick up if you are a competant deleloper. the other 4% are a bit harder. Thre remaining 1% are not used by the sane.

1. Decent enough to not be a pain to use.
2. Cheap enough to replace when the enevitable beer falls on it. (Or to have a replacement while the other drys out if you are quick enough!)

It might go a long way to be honest.

My main machine is a windows box purely because I like to run games.

My laptop is windows again for the same reason.

My other machine which is the only one on 24/7 runs debian. I store my files on there so I can access them. Also do a bit of web browsing etc on there when I need to and my other machines are busy.

I spose "work" is also an issue. I use MS Access quite a bit (shut up you lot!), but if I had my games on linux that could easily be in a Windows VM so is not as big of an issue.

"Capitalist"

Happy to help.

Potato?

Depends how you know it's an advantageos position I would have thought.

If it is becuase you are that familier with the map then you have an unfair advantage over someone who only play casualy and does not.

Oh for a truely random 3d map generator that does not just spout crap!

> 1999
>640 x 480 area of the screen, which was a common monitor size back then

Bah. Kids.

This size was common in 1994 maybe.

1024*768 was pretty much the standard in 1999. Though a lot of idiots may have ran at 800*600 no one ran at 640 * 480 unless they were still running windows 3.0!

Blame MS.

The sane option for windows from vista on would have been to deny users the choice and install a 64bit os if the hardware supports it.

Personally I have run 64 bit since xp, although you can only call that a test, vista 64 was ready for all.

Yes I know, the 1 in 16384 people that insist on having some old POC device. Well they can keep an old machine around for it if it is that important.

Nt major versions 3.1, 3.5, 4.0, 2000, XP, vista, 7.

7 is release 7.

Simple if you ain't a dumb kid.

Serious Answer/Question - Who cares as long as it's tasty.

But more specificly. Yes / No.

So what you are esentially saying is.

Shits complex.

It really pisses me off that a lot off people do not get this. I know the human mind likes to break things down into nice boxes. But without realising there are no nice boxes this does not help.

> Back in the 90's I worked as an artist on a game for the original Atari in Milpitas, they folded over a decade ago.

Well you pass on the maths.

However the original Atari are surely Atari Inc. They ceased to be in 1984.