I have to admit that I had a bit of a wry chuckle after reading that Intel, one of Microsoft's most staunch allies, decided to eschew a corporation-wide upgrade to Windows Vista. For the longest time, I had nurtured well-reasoned suspicions that the two biggest players in town controlling the world of personal and corporate computing were in bed together. Some pundits, in fact, have resorted to calling their relationship "WinTel," the portmanteau signifying the union of Microsoft's massive...

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I've been interested in learning OpenGL for a while now as well as getting some experience with C++. C++ is technically the first language I learned, but it was just a class in middle school and I remember absolutely nothing about it. I've since taken several classes involving C and Java, both on the high school and college level, so I'm starting out with a pretty good grasp of the underlying concepts. I can do OO and I can do manual memory management (pointers and such) and the optimization...

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