Most blizzard games run very well under wine. I'm not sure why exactly, I assume it's a combination of developer excitement over the game and Blizzard devs writing good code.
I've been playing Warcraft III on wine for 3-4 years now. People have the Starcraft II beta running already.
I wonder if Blizzard is cool enough to compete with Valve and get a proper Linux client out for SC2? Sadly, I doubt it.:(
No but they obviously wrote an opengl backed for Mac OSX.
Since that's done, it's trivial to port the renderer to Linux (which also uses OpenGL for native 3d hardware access). The renderer is probably the most complex part of the engine, so that means adding Linux support is much cheaper than it would have otherwise been.
Working at NASA is like working in the game industry, it's the coolest gig around and attracts tons of people which creates more competition and ultimately drives salaries down.
The late 50's Pontiac Catalina's had holes drilled throughout the frame to reduce weight and thus increase the car's performance on the racing circuit. It was called a "swiss cheese frame."
Riiight, which is why you almost never read about high profile sites running Java web apps getting taken down.
But there are MONTHLY security exploits for mature web apps written in C or C++ (see Apache, BIND, and every other C/C++ networked application that ever existed).
Where do stupid fucking morons like you come from?
If you're worried about security, you don't assume a best case scenario. "lalala, ladee dah, I'll just make sure my C code is perfect with no exploits and it'll be just as secure as Java."
The reality is it only takes one simple, hard to find and debug fuck up and your application will be owned. In the same scenario using Java, the app would still be secure.
In a perfect world, C and Java are just as secure as one another. In reality, it's not even comparable, Java wins hands down.
In the case of an advanced JVM like HotSpot (the official Sun/Oracle JVM), you also get the performance back.
If the array bounds checking can be removed without compromising security, HotSpot's JIT compiler will do so when compiling the Java bytecode into native instructions.
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Think about this logically... you'll be dead in under a century.
I was thinking more of the Ghostbusters.
Who you gonna call? STANFORD!
Nope, doesn't have the same ring to it.
um... Mac OSX.... and it's actually a certified Unix whereas Linux is just a unixalike (Ubuntu user here).
True but that could easily change. Steam used to be Windows only as well.
Most blizzard games run very well under wine. I'm not sure why exactly, I assume it's a combination of developer excitement over the game and Blizzard devs writing good code.
I've been playing Warcraft III on wine for 3-4 years now. People have the Starcraft II beta running already.
I wonder if Blizzard is cool enough to compete with Valve and get a proper Linux client out for SC2? Sadly, I doubt it. :(
They both run fine for me under 64-bit Ubuntu.
No but they obviously wrote an opengl backed for Mac OSX.
Since that's done, it's trivial to port the renderer to Linux (which also uses OpenGL for native 3d hardware access). The renderer is probably the most complex part of the engine, so that means adding Linux support is much cheaper than it would have otherwise been.
Actually, in NK it's "Word To Your Motherland."
Working at NASA is like working in the game industry, it's the coolest gig around and attracts tons of people which creates more competition and ultimately drives salaries down.
Ballmer scrambling the jets now.
From the midwest.
I'm not the pope, but I'm going to have to put "intentionally giving people crabs" in the unethical column.
But fun and rewarding? Totally different column.
The late 50's Pontiac Catalina's had holes drilled throughout the frame to reduce weight and thus increase the car's performance on the racing circuit. It was called a "swiss cheese frame."
Speed holes aren't a joke. ;)
....need more vespene gas?
We can only hope.
They named it that because HP is about to rock you...
I think it's going to be an also ran against Android and iPhone OS.
Quite cromulent paraphrasing you've performed there.
Yeah but the poor performance and portability between browsers at the moment makes Flash look really, really good.
I'm looking forward to HTML5 but we're not there yet... and people are buying iPads and co right now, i.e. in the present.
Those are devices designed specifically for video games. Sure, there have been efforts to make them do other things, but 99% of their job is games.
The iPad is a multipurpose device, not designed for anything in particular. It's much more like a PC than a game console.
Shame on apple for fucking it's customers the way they do.
This is a US centric site, managed by Americans about technology.
You're going to have a lot of US bias here. If you don't like these stories, don't read them.
I mean, looking at the title, what exactly did you think you'd find in this article?
Riiight, which is why you almost never read about high profile sites running Java web apps getting taken down.
But there are MONTHLY security exploits for mature web apps written in C or C++ (see Apache, BIND, and every other C/C++ networked application that ever existed).
Where do stupid fucking morons like you come from?
Steve,
It's dead. Just let it go.
Yours Truly,
binarylarry Esq.
You fail it.
If you're worried about security, you don't assume a best case scenario. "lalala, ladee dah, I'll just make sure my C code is perfect with no exploits and it'll be just as secure as Java."
The reality is it only takes one simple, hard to find and debug fuck up and your application will be owned. In the same scenario using Java, the app would still be secure.
In a perfect world, C and Java are just as secure as one another. In reality, it's not even comparable, Java wins hands down.
In the case of an advanced JVM like HotSpot (the official Sun/Oracle JVM), you also get the performance back.
If the array bounds checking can be removed without compromising security, HotSpot's JIT compiler will do so when compiling the Java bytecode into native instructions.
A more secure PHP option, Quercus.