Modern Greek or Classical Greek? I took two years of Classical Greek while an undergraduate. Man, I loved tha class. It was my easiest class too. Unfortunately, I never learned a language I could use to communicate with others in the world. I learned a heck of a lot about grammar though. Okay, the real problem in the USA with languages is that we're too big? Who are you going to practice with? Many of our states are bigger than whole countries in Europe, Asia, etc. Okay... with all the Mexican immigrants, Spanish is quickly becoming a "second" language here, but it's not necessary nor is it all that prevalent throughout the country.

Yeah, but you need to know Japanese to watch fresh anime -- which is why I'm learning Japanese. Regardless, I always wondered about this topic. I mean, can I program in Japan if I know Engrish? Do they localize the keywords or is an int and int everywhere in the whole wide world? My Japanese language exchange partner did some programming in C# and couldn't get the program to work. He sent it to me and I fixed it. Is this because I know English and he doesn't or is it because he's not a very good C# programmer (that doesn't really mean I am either, though).

There is no way I could do this in my head, but I did solve it with pencil and paper in under an hour. I didn't time it exactly.

Windows 4 ========= Windows 9.x -- but honestly, this doesn't really count Windows NT 4.0 Windows 5 ========= Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 -- not sure. Windows 6 ========= Vista Windows 2008 Windows 95, 98 and Me were all based on the Win95 code which was a mixture of 16-bit and 32-bit code using the architecture orginally developed for Win 3.x. The virtual device driver architecture for Win 9x was the same as for Windows 3.x. Windows NT 4.0 of course was the follow-on from Windows NT 3.x. Windows 2000 was, IMHO, an "Internet patch" to get Microsoft from their "Novell Killer" Windows NT 4.0 platform to their "Netscape Killer" Windows. Device driver architecture is more or less the same for WinNT-based computers (changes of course over the versions but essentially the same). Windows XP was the firs truly client-friendly Windows NT-based OS. Windows 2003 was the first truly Internet-based server. Vista, IMHO, is a good OS but had a lot of problems at first which caused much bad press, etc. Windows 2008 just a more advanced version of 2003. I've not used Windows 7 yet but my son loves it.