The algorithm is deterministic once everything is known about the terrain. Admittedly, everything may not be known at the beginning, and must be guesed and probed. I suppose this could be called AI, but it's not very advanced, and they do it just fine. Their biggest problem that I've seen is that they do not take into account all available information - in particular, they do not seem to realize when other troops are moving. So when you are trying to move nine troops through a small hole, and the first one enters, the others get confused. Admittedly, there is a certain amount of uncertainty involved. The troop may decide to stop in the middle and in fact create a block. However, this is not that likely, and they should only adjust their course if he does in fact stop. This is a fairly straightforward algorithm.
The most efficient movement of troops can be done without any AI at all. It just takes a nice deterministic algorithm. They just haven't bothered to figure out a good one.
I highly doubt that any part of the Linux kernel is involved with the iToaster. I'm admittedly not an expert, but BeOS and Linux kernels have *completely* different architechtures. Mixing the two would be all but impossible technically. Also, what would be the benifit? BeOS does a fine job at everything they need. It's perfectly capable of memory management, filsystems, networking, graphics and multimedia. There really is no reason for them to touch Linux if they've got BeOS.
You can probably get one for free. Try universities, businesses, or government offices. They give 'em away all the time when they upgrade old hardware.
I'm not in the business world yet, but these numbers all seem really really low. 7,700 lines a year = 148 lines a week = 3.7 lines an hour. Huh? Who writes 3.7 lines an hour?? Who even writes at such a slow pace as even 10 lines an hour?
This makes me wonder how they define "programmer." Perhaps "programmer" is just someone who happens to write some code in his or her job.
I'm just a college freshman now, and on a good day, I'll write 500 lines (a line being defined by wc -l) in a single day. Multiply that by ~250 work days comes out to 125,000 lines in a year...
I would install a full distribution (take your pick--RedHat, Debian, SuSE, Slackware...), then use that to compile everything for your personal distribution. Either put it together on a separate computer or on a different partition if you're low on spare computers.:)
Just a warning: I started doing this, and never finished. It takes a long time. There's just a lot of grunt work to do.
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The algorithm is deterministic once everything is known about the terrain. Admittedly, everything may not be known at the beginning, and must be guesed and probed. I suppose this could be called AI, but it's not very advanced, and they do it just fine. Their biggest problem that I've seen is that they do not take into account all available information - in particular, they do not seem to realize when other troops are moving. So when you are trying to move nine troops through a small hole, and the first one enters, the others get confused. Admittedly, there is a certain amount of uncertainty involved. The troop may decide to stop in the middle and in fact create a block. However, this is not that likely, and they should only adjust their course if he does in fact stop. This is a fairly straightforward algorithm.
The most efficient movement of troops can be done without any AI at all. It just takes a nice deterministic algorithm. They just haven't bothered to figure out a good one.
I highly doubt that any part of the Linux kernel is involved with the iToaster. I'm admittedly not an expert, but BeOS and Linux kernels have *completely* different architechtures. Mixing the two would be all but impossible technically. Also, what would be the benifit? BeOS does a fine job at everything they need. It's perfectly capable of memory management, filsystems, networking, graphics and multimedia. There really is no reason for them to touch Linux if they've got BeOS.
Athlon, as in Pentathlon, as in Pent(ium)-athlon???? Doesn't seem like coincidence to me. ;-)
You can probably get one for free. Try universities, businesses, or government offices. They give 'em away all the time when they upgrade old hardware.
I'm not in the business world yet, but these numbers all seem really really low. 7,700 lines a year = 148 lines a week = 3.7 lines an hour. Huh? Who writes 3.7 lines an hour?? Who even writes at such a slow pace as even 10 lines an hour?
This makes me wonder how they define "programmer." Perhaps "programmer" is just someone who happens to write some code in his or her job.
I'm just a college freshman now, and on a good day, I'll write 500 lines (a line being defined by wc -l) in a single day. Multiply that by ~250 work days comes out to 125,000 lines in a year...
I would install a full distribution (take your pick--RedHat, Debian, SuSE, Slackware...), then use that to compile everything for your personal distribution. Either put it together on a separate computer or on a different partition if you're low on spare computers. :)
Just a warning: I started doing this, and never finished. It takes a long time. There's just a lot of grunt work to do.