Agreed, I used to spend hours playing Sim city, my only concern is the graphical appeal of the game, I just hope they improve it a little because the game is waaaay to old and children may not like it as much as we did back then.
They finally suspect that the suspicious lake laying right at the center of a suspiciously devastated area might be the crater left by a comet crash.
Nah, seriously speaking, it must have been pretty hard to figure it out after all these years. Tip of the hat to them!
which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Here, read some. These are benchmarks comparing Java5 to C++ http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
Java has improved a lot since its early versions and now it's comparable to the best platform specific compiled languages out there.
That's a nice tool for newbies, although I have to say if you don't know how to set up your BIOS to install an OS or you have problems with the Debian installer (not that hard to use), you are a few steps back the road. I would reccomend distros like Ubuntu or live CD's for total newbies.
Ok, they rely on propietary products, but that doesn't mean they are useless to the Open Source Community.
See, it's open source, so porting any of those projects to other systems is quite simple and it's nothing compared to having to reverse engineer everything.
C is like the marrow of computer programming, the fact that it's not being used as widely as before to write en user software doesn't mean the technology is no longer useful. It's the perfect programming language for many things and it will always be that way.
About Cobol on the list. I agree it's an old and rather anti practical language considering you have to write like 50 lines to print a single hello world on the screen, but there's a University in my city where it's still being taught as part of an asignature (I don't know wich one or what for).
I can't really comment about the other technologies because I never used any of them, I'm 20 years old and never had the chance to try them. But It's always a valuable thinh to have some knowledge of old technologies.
One thing I'd really like to see on that list is Shockwave/Flash technologies, I have serious issues with those.
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How about the other games the OLPC comes with?
Agreed, I used to spend hours playing Sim city, my only concern is the graphical appeal of the game, I just hope they improve it a little because the game is waaaay to old and children may not like it as much as we did back then.
They finally suspect that the suspicious lake laying right at the center of a suspiciously devastated area might be the crater left by a comet crash.
Nah, seriously speaking, it must have been pretty hard to figure it out after all these years. Tip of the hat to them!
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Oh no, not again...
Here, read some. These are benchmarks comparing Java5 to C++
http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
Java has improved a lot since its early versions and now it's comparable to the best platform specific compiled languages out there.
That's a nice tool for newbies, although I have to say if you don't know how to set up your BIOS to install an OS or you have problems with the Debian installer (not that hard to use), you are a few steps back the road.
I would reccomend distros like Ubuntu or live CD's for total newbies.
Opportunist takes a dip into Victoria's crater?
Ok, they rely on propietary products, but that doesn't mean they are useless to the Open Source Community.
See, it's open source, so porting any of those projects to other systems is quite simple and it's nothing compared to having to reverse engineer everything.
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Ale
I'm Argentinian you insensitive clod! (seriously)
I guess cheese is the only edible thing without feelings then...
C is like the marrow of computer programming, the fact that it's not being used as widely as before to write en user software doesn't mean the technology is no longer useful. It's the perfect programming language for many things and it will always be that way.
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About Cobol on the list. I agree it's an old and rather anti practical language considering you have to write like 50 lines to print a single hello world on the screen, but there's a University in my city where it's still being taught as part of an asignature (I don't know wich one or what for).
I can't really comment about the other technologies because I never used any of them, I'm 20 years old and never had the chance to try them. But It's always a valuable thinh to have some knowledge of old technologies.
One thing I'd really like to see on that list is Shockwave/Flash technologies, I have serious issues with those.