until we realize that we must not go the Microsoft Way - we must go the Apple Way,
Supporting only a narrowly defined set of hardware? Although that would be much easier in terms of support, linux only has a few percent of the market, so it's not like we can impose any rules on anyone... on the other hand one of linux biggest assets is its flexibility, running in small gadgets and supercomputers.
I don't about the rest of you, but functional languages don't fit my brain, and to me it's not worth the struggle. On the other hand, procedural/OO languages are no trouble at all, and I can learn new ones quickly. I don't understand why anyone would choose lisp, scheme, etc. Maybe they were born with bigger stacks, because when working with functional languages I'll go into stack overflow mode in a jiffy:-)
I had a copy of l0phtcrack on my disk that I downloaded years ago from their site, and was left gathering dust on a forgotten corner of my hard drive. Recently a full drive scan by an antivirus (AVG?) identified it has having a trojan. It could be a false positive, but it seems more likely to really be a trojan that had been deliberately planted there.
Consider yourselves warned.
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For years it has been like this. Then suddenly one year there were no April fools stories on 1 apr that year. This 1 apr, all stories are Aprils fools... Some moderation would be nice. But hey, it's only one day...
xmgrace graphics aren't very pretty, at least when compared with matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html. I still use it for quick and dirty graphics, otherwise I use matplotlib.
I'm currently using Avast! exactly because of the problems you mention. I can't stand Antivir due to all the nagging, was using AVG before, but not anymore. Avast! has some annoyances (spinning icon, some nagging notifications) but they can be disabled by editing a configuration file.
"When did you code your first C application?"
If it was any older than 12 (twelve), I'd reject them.
Uhmmm, I had my first computer at 11, a ZX Spectrum+, and didn't use a real PC until a few years latter. Other people may have had other interests, and only started programming latter in life. One of the best programmers I know started using computers when he was 15. Your test is not good at all. I agree with the rest, self-learning is essencial to be a good programmer.
I use the old bar and hide unvisited add-ons, and set the maxRichResults to 48 or so. The Old bar merely changes the appearance of the bar to match the old one, but the Hide unvisited add-on removes all the clutter from the results, so that the remaining matches are actually useful.
cat > hello.c printf("hello world"); ^D gcc hello.c hello.c:1: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant hello.c:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class hello.c:1: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'printf'
Condensed matter physics and high energy physics also have a large presence on Arxiv. As you say, it depends largely on which branch of physics you deal with.
Well, our prime minister thinks he can jump start our economy, and get us into the new technological era by throwing computers around. This is not the first laptop plan this government tried, and I think it'll mostly be wasted money. The sad part is that we lack the money to do some really important things, but at the same time we blow millions at the drop of the hat on things like this, or the deal with MIT, as if it would magically solve everything.
To make everything worse is the amount of propaganda going around here about the first portuguese computer!!! People, it's just a rebranded Intel Classmate that will be assembled here! The amount of propaganda shoveled by every single media outlet is preposterous. They just amplified what the government said, without any fact checking whatsoever...
The suggestions from other posters about science books for the general public won't help you much. You need to learn the basic physics, such as mechanics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism. Thankfully there are good books that teach all of these areas at a basic level, and you'll be able to go through them quickly.
Although in a different way, I also changed from math to physics. One thing you should know is that physicists use math as a tool, and don't worry about convergences, approximations, etc. Prepare to be shocked with all the approximations made: Physicists keep expanding stuff in Taylor series and keeping only 1 or 2 terms, without worrying about what they left out, treat differentials basically as numbers, use distribution functions intuitively, without a proper theoretical support, say a differential equation is "solved" when they find one solution that matches what they need, etc.
I would recommend the introductory physics books by Paul A. Tipler, because they cover the whole physics you need to get up to speed, and are simple.
Another similar book is "Fundamentals of Physics" by Halliday and Resnick.
These two books / books series are simple, written for the beggining physics undergrad. I think they are what you need. However, if you are very good at math, and want grad student level physics books, the series "Course of Theoretical Physics" by Landau and Lifshitz is suberb. They are very advanced though.
After you master the books at the level of Tipler and/or Halliday and Resnick, you should move on to individual books about the various areas, such as mechanics, electromagnetism and thermodynamics.
"The Feynman lectures on physics" are a classic, and almost required reading for wanting to be a physicist, however they won't teach you much actual day to day physics. It was written to be a physics course, but to me it is more of an inspirational book than a manual, so you can always read these latter.
Yes, I was referring to Maxima. For me a CAS is a place to do calculations, not a DTP or WYSIWIG editor, so that is not the problem, just its limitations. Sympy looks like a good idea, but it's still in early stages of development, I don't like sage (uses Maxima), and there isn't much left. Reduce is also expensive, and I don't know how good or bad it is.
That is one of the reasons I haven't bought Mathematica. I could buy the official version and then install the cracked one, but that also doesn't feel right. So, I'll just keep my money, and use the crappy free alternatives.
Using a ingenious new method of buzzword combination, scientists found a way to get funding to do what they want to do, selling it as method to do whatever the funding agency wants, wherever they need it. A new, more ambitious project, will employ nanotubes enhanced with teraherts waves, as a bio-reactor to create biodiesel, clean coal, and solve global warming, creating just the right amount of tritium needed to feed their fusion generator.
Why should voice actors get a percentage for a few days of work? What about all the programmers, artists and the like that spent 50 or 60 hours per week working on the game? 100k doesn't seem like a meager pay.
Hear hear, I've had two yahoo! accounts (one spam, one personal) since 1997 or so--and if this goes through, they're both going bye-bye. Hey, me too! Which alternative would you recomend (Hint: Not google)? I may leave the spam account though.
Although I may have played with someones Nintendo Game & Watch before, my first computer game was Atic Attack for the ZX-Spectrum. Notable games that left an impression:
Elite for the ZX-Spectrum - An open ended game, with 3D graphics and a huge world all in 48k! Second Reality from Future Crew (a demo, not a game, but still it had amazing 3D graphics) Doom A MUD (Multi User Dungeon), (don't remember which one though) Tomb Raider I, in particular on the valley where a T-Rex charges at you, wow! The Half Life series. For me HL2:Episode 2 reached the point where games and movies merge.
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I was wondering all this time if Chuck Norris was there, and what abbilities he would have :)
Look at this library's example plots: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html
Supporting only a narrowly defined set of hardware? Although that would be much easier in terms of support, linux only has a few percent of the market, so it's not like we can impose any rules on anyone... on the other hand one of linux biggest assets is its flexibility, running in small gadgets and supercomputers.
I don't about the rest of you, but functional languages don't fit my brain, and to me it's not worth the struggle. On the other hand, procedural/OO languages are no trouble at all, and I can learn new ones quickly. I don't understand why anyone would choose lisp, scheme, etc. Maybe they were born with bigger stacks, because when working with functional languages I'll go into stack overflow mode in a jiffy :-)
I had a copy of l0phtcrack on my disk that I downloaded years ago from their site, and was left gathering dust on a forgotten corner of my hard drive. Recently a full drive scan by an antivirus (AVG?) identified it has having a trojan. It could be a false positive, but it seems more likely to really be a trojan that had been deliberately planted there. Consider yourselves warned.
For years it has been like this. Then suddenly one year there were no April fools stories on 1 apr that year. This 1 apr, all stories are Aprils fools... Some moderation would be nice. But hey, it's only one day...
BTW: Bananaphone!, Badger Badger Badger!
xmgrace graphics aren't very pretty, at least when compared with matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html. I still use it for quick and dirty graphics, otherwise I use matplotlib.
(2) GnuPlot Plots all that beautiful data....
The data may be beautiful, but the gnuplot plot won't. Use Matplotlib http://matplotlib.sf.net/ for that.
I'm currently using Avast! exactly because of the problems you mention. I can't stand Antivir due to all the nagging, was using AVG before, but not anymore. Avast! has some annoyances (spinning icon, some nagging notifications) but they can be disabled by editing a configuration file.
"When did you code your first C application?" If it was any older than 12 (twelve), I'd reject them.
Uhmmm, I had my first computer at 11, a ZX Spectrum+, and didn't use a real PC until a few years latter. Other people may have had other interests, and only started programming latter in life. One of the best programmers I know started using computers when he was 15. Your test is not good at all. I agree with the rest, self-learning is essencial to be a good programmer.
Then why are the incandescent bulbs being slapped with taxes and threatened to be outlawed?
I use the old bar and hide unvisited add-ons, and set the maxRichResults to 48 or so. The Old bar merely changes the appearance of the bar to match the old one, but the Hide unvisited add-on removes all the clutter from the results, so that the remaining matches are actually useful.
you'll have parallel_for(x=0;x<1000;x++) dosomething();
We already have this, it's called OpenMP. Your example would be something like
#pragma omp parallel for
for(x=0;x<1000;x++) dosomething();
cat > hello.c
printf("hello world");
^D
gcc hello.c
hello.c:1: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant
hello.c:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
hello.c:1: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'printf'
Condensed matter physics and high energy physics also have a large presence on Arxiv. As you say, it depends largely on which branch of physics you deal with.
To make everything worse is the amount of propaganda going around here about the first portuguese computer!!! People, it's just a rebranded Intel Classmate that will be assembled here! The amount of propaganda shoveled by every single media outlet is preposterous. They just amplified what the government said, without any fact checking whatsoever...
The suggestions from other posters about science books for the general public won't help you much. You need to learn the basic physics, such as mechanics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism. Thankfully there are good books that teach all of these areas at a basic level, and you'll be able to go through them quickly.
Although in a different way, I also changed from math to physics. One thing you should know is that physicists use math as a tool, and don't worry about convergences, approximations, etc. Prepare to be shocked with all the approximations made: Physicists keep expanding stuff in Taylor series and keeping only 1 or 2 terms, without worrying about what they left out, treat differentials basically as numbers, use distribution functions intuitively, without a proper theoretical support, say a differential equation is "solved" when they find one solution that matches what they need, etc.
I would recommend the introductory physics books by Paul A. Tipler, because they cover the whole physics you need to get up to speed, and are simple.
Another similar book is "Fundamentals of Physics" by Halliday and Resnick.
These two books / books series are simple, written for the beggining physics undergrad. I think they are what you need. However, if you are very good at math, and want grad student level physics books, the series "Course of Theoretical Physics" by Landau and Lifshitz is suberb. They are very advanced though.
After you master the books at the level of Tipler and/or Halliday and Resnick, you should move on to individual books about the various areas, such as mechanics, electromagnetism and thermodynamics.
"The Feynman lectures on physics" are a classic, and almost required reading for wanting to be a physicist, however they won't teach you much actual day to day physics. It was written to be a physics course, but to me it is more of an inspirational book than a manual, so you can always read these latter.
Yes, I was referring to Maxima. For me a CAS is a place to do calculations, not a DTP or WYSIWIG editor, so that is not the problem, just its limitations. Sympy looks like a good idea, but it's still in early stages of development, I don't like sage (uses Maxima), and there isn't much left. Reduce is also expensive, and I don't know how good or bad it is.
That is one of the reasons I haven't bought Mathematica. I could buy the official version and then install the cracked one, but that also doesn't feel right. So, I'll just keep my money, and use the crappy free alternatives.
Using a ingenious new method of buzzword combination, scientists found a way to get funding to do what they want to do, selling it as method to do whatever the funding agency wants, wherever they need it. A new, more ambitious project, will employ nanotubes enhanced with teraherts waves, as a bio-reactor to create biodiesel, clean coal, and solve global warming, creating just the right amount of tritium needed to feed their fusion generator.
Why should voice actors get a percentage for a few days of work? What about all the programmers, artists and the like that spent 50 or 60 hours per week working on the game? 100k doesn't seem like a meager pay.
Although I may have played with someones Nintendo Game & Watch before, my first computer game was Atic Attack for the ZX-Spectrum. Notable games that left an impression:
Elite for the ZX-Spectrum - An open ended game, with 3D graphics and a huge world all in 48k!
Second Reality from Future Crew (a demo, not a game, but still it had amazing 3D graphics)
Doom
A MUD (Multi User Dungeon), (don't remember which one though)
Tomb Raider I, in particular on the valley where a T-Rex charges at you, wow!
The Half Life series. For me HL2:Episode 2 reached the point where games and movies merge.