Firstly, I am a CS major and have a number of linux machines..and TBH I am not even sure how latex works...how can you expect writers to know about this format which is primarily (as far as I can tell) used in *nix?
TeX is pretty much standard in physics and math. I'm a physics student and TeX was the second thing we were taught in the computer introduction course -- after learning how to log in and do basic file management in Linux. It's just a matter of learning it.
It's actually a bit strange that TeX isn't more widely used in CS. CS people, if any, should be able to understand the benefits.
FFT is to naive FT as quicksort is to insertion sort.
Be careful with the terminology; you correctly referred to "naive FT algorithm" above, but this sentence might give the impression that the Fourier transform itself is an algorithm. FT is a function whereas the FFT is an algorithm that computes the function. It would be more appropriate to say that FFT is to the Fourier transform what quicksort is to sorting.
It's also used by distributed mathematics projects such as GIMPS to multiply large numbers. Unfortunately, if this implementation only operates in 32-bit precision, it will probably be less useful for this purpose since you'd have to do subproducts with fewer digits at a time, to avoid rounding error. I'm not familiar with the details, though.
That's not true; Carmack has made several important design choices throughout id Software's history. Some for the better (eg throwing out Tom Hall's shitty design for the original Doom), others for the worse.
What we really need is a directive to *ban* software patents on the EU level...
The European Patent Convention from the 80s already prohibits patents on "programs for computers". The catch is that the EPO doesn't follow it, although it should.
All the accounts listed on this page have been created solely for the purpose of trolling, and this page was set up to make it easier to determine whether two troll accounts belong to the same person.
No passwords have been leaked, and the only people affected are trolls.
Programming instructions? In the popular press (at least in Sweden), stolen source code is referred to as source codes and in such a way that it sounds like stolen passwords.
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Firstly, I am a CS major and have a number of linux machines ..and TBH I am not even sure how latex works...how can you expect writers to know about this format which is primarily (as far as I can tell) used in *nix?
TeX is pretty much standard in physics and math. I'm a physics student and TeX was the second thing we were taught in the computer introduction course -- after learning how to log in and do basic file management in Linux. It's just a matter of learning it.
It's actually a bit strange that TeX isn't more widely used in CS. CS people, if any, should be able to understand the benefits.
TeX works just fine in Windows, by the way.
From Wikipedia: "In one of the videos, Cho compares himself to Jesus Christ, explaining that his death will influence generations of people."
FFT is to naive FT as quicksort is to insertion sort.
Be careful with the terminology; you correctly referred to "naive FT algorithm" above, but this sentence might give the impression that the Fourier transform itself is an algorithm. FT is a function whereas the FFT is an algorithm that computes the function. It would be more appropriate to say that FFT is to the Fourier transform what quicksort is to sorting.
It's also used by distributed mathematics projects such as GIMPS to multiply large numbers. Unfortunately, if this implementation only operates in 32-bit precision, it will probably be less useful for this purpose since you'd have to do subproducts with fewer digits at a time, to avoid rounding error. I'm not familiar with the details, though.
This term has obviously been first used by someone who didn't really understand what third party means, and the rest of the world followed.
You just described about every word and grammatical rule in every language ever.
Agreed. Romero's Doom 2 maps are also good, however; shame that he didn't make more of them.
That's not true; Carmack has made several important design choices throughout id Software's history. Some for the better (eg throwing out Tom Hall's shitty design for the original Doom), others for the worse.
A better term is "fixed 3D" rendering.
Incorrect. Wiktionary is a free dictionary. This one is open. The distinction is important.
Carmack wasn't a DirectX fan. In fact he wasn't interested in porting Doom to Windows at all - and thus Microsoft did it themselves.
Good post. But don't forget the L and R buttons on the SNES controller; those were a pretty important (and widely copied) innovation as well.
What we really need is a directive to *ban* software patents on the EU level...
The European Patent Convention from the 80s already prohibits patents on "programs for computers". The catch is that the EPO doesn't follow it, although it should.
How exactly is the distinction between Slashdotters and other web bots significant?
Hey, way to waste mod points...
Never will? What about Star Trek?
I'm still waiting on who actually uses Wikipedia as their primary source of information.
According to this page I found, which seems reliable, "Its articles have been cited by the mass media and academia."
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All the accounts listed on this page have been created solely for the purpose of trolling, and this page was set up to make it easier to determine whether two troll accounts belong to the same person.
No passwords have been leaked, and the only people affected are trolls.
Suppose I was on one of those lists
The only way you could be that is if you were a troll who had created multiple sockpuppet accounts.
Exposing troll accounts is shameful?
Much simpler than that: in Python, "exec" takes a string of Python code which may be a complete program.
That cheat isn't necessary to write one-liners though.
Any program can be written in a single line in Python as well.
Try Fisheye Quake
programming instructions
Programming instructions? In the popular press (at least in Sweden), stolen source code is referred to as source codes and in such a way that it sounds like stolen passwords.
Why would he?
FOOM!