Mine works great. It plays just as fast as in windows and is basically flawless. There are only 2 bad parts about it. When you quit it doesn't always terminate correctly and locks up X. Also, No battle.net. That's the best part of starcraft for me so I don't play it much in Linux
1) In Mathematics, it doesn't matter if the first element in an array is 0 or 1, as long as you know it's the first element. you can start an array at 45 and go to 46. You know that 45 is the first element and you are fine.
2) This is the case for matrices. IE: most people label matrices in the form. [[a11, a12,...] [a21, a22,...] [...]] notice starting at 1,1. because it really doesn't matter.
3) (Excuse my BASIC, i had to go look this up) you can actually set the indexing in arrays to anything you want... Check out the command OPTION BASE 1 (this will set all bases of arrays to 1)
4) FORTRAN is still widely used in many older code, particularly in modelling, simulation and other mathematical-engineer purposes. Engineers still have to learn it for that reason.
nachoman --------- I had to learn FORTRAN because it was used in all the modelling code for a nuclear power plant simulator.
Next time NBC makes a movie they should get some of their facts straight.
Even if you accept the fact and basis that all computers in the world will have problems (which they won't), you can't make false statements about Power plants that are not true.
In the movie they mention that a certain Nuclear Power Plant may have problems... Their reason that they can't shut it down is because even if they did "It would have to cool down for five days...".
This is a load of trash.
There are numerous mechanical systems that will stop the system in an instant. In Canada's CANDU reactors, the control rods are above the reactor held by magnetic fields. If there is a power disruption then the fields release and the rods drop Immediately stoping the reaction. The reactor may still be "hot" and very hot at that, but there is not more reaction. Not only that but NO more reactions can occur. The control rods absorbe all of the neutrons so that the reaction can't possibly proceed.
My point is that you can't take everything that they put in this movie seriously. This is just on example of an error that I am aware of.
Why would mircrosoft want cross platform compatibility?
The simple reason I came up with is that If they loose ground in the operating system world, they still can continue with their line of software. If Linux-MFC (an oxymoron) is easier to program then many people will pay for microsoft's Developper studio (which is ok, other than it's cost).
They are just doing it so they will win both ways. Notice that they aren't making a windows application to run linux but vice-versa. This is because they realize that people don't like their operating system.
Just think, Do you really think they would do this if there wasn't anything in it for them.
I was so moved by the great debate over cutting trees that I printed out all of the posts. I am planning to put them on my wall and photocopy them for the ecology department at the university.
"C++ is just too difficult for first-year CS students in high school" I don't fully understand the concept of a CS student in high school. But you have to admit that if you want to call yourself a CS student, then you will have to learn how to do some real programming. You can't lead students into a false hope that a CS job consists of simple Python scripting. Currently I am in 2nd year CS and know of many people who are in CS and really shouldn't be. They are there because jobs and because they got good marks doing basically nothing in programming courses in high school. I think that they realized this, but I don't think python is the answer. C and C++ should be taught early, even if they have to use simplified libraries to do things. If we are not careful, we will create a generation of Computer Science students that will (if they don't fail miserably when it gets hard) have the degree but not really have the skill nor desire for what they are doing
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Mine works great. It plays just as fast as in windows and is basically flawless. There are only 2 bad parts about it. When you quit it doesn't always terminate correctly and locks up X. Also, No battle.net. That's the best part of starcraft for me so I don't play it much in Linux
Did anyone here Leno's comment last night?
It was something like this:
"It's the greatest breakthrough in cloning since The Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync..."
1) In Mathematics, it doesn't matter if the first element in an array is 0 or 1, as long as you know it's the first element. you can start an array at 45 and go to 46. You know that 45 is the first element and you are fine.
...] ...]
2) This is the case for matrices. IE: most people label matrices in the form.
[[a11, a12,
[a21, a22,
[...]]
notice starting at 1,1. because it really doesn't matter.
3) (Excuse my BASIC, i had to go look this up) you can actually set the indexing in arrays to anything you want...
Check out the command OPTION BASE 1
(this will set all bases of arrays to 1)
4) FORTRAN is still widely used in many older code, particularly in modelling, simulation and other mathematical-engineer purposes. Engineers still have to learn it for that reason.
nachoman
---------
I had to learn FORTRAN because it was used in all the modelling code for a nuclear power plant simulator.
Next time NBC makes a movie they should get some of their facts straight.
Even if you accept the fact and basis that all computers in the world will have problems (which they won't), you can't make false statements about Power plants that are not true.
In the movie they mention that a certain Nuclear Power Plant may have problems... Their reason that they can't shut it down is because even if they did "It would have to cool down for five days...".
This is a load of trash.
There are numerous mechanical systems that will stop the system in an instant. In Canada's CANDU reactors, the control rods are above the reactor held by magnetic fields. If there is a power disruption then the fields release and the rods drop Immediately stoping the reaction. The reactor may still be "hot" and very hot at that, but there is not more reaction. Not only that but NO more reactions can occur. The control rods absorbe all of the neutrons so that the reaction can't possibly proceed.
My point is that you can't take everything that they put in this movie seriously. This is just on example of an error that I am aware of.
nachoman
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Why would mircrosoft want cross platform compatibility?
The simple reason I came up with is that If they loose ground in the operating system world, they still can continue with their line of software. If Linux-MFC (an oxymoron) is easier to program then many people will pay for microsoft's Developper studio (which is ok, other than it's cost).
They are just doing it so they will win both ways. Notice that they aren't making a windows application to run linux but vice-versa. This is because they realize that people don't like their operating system.
Just think, Do you really think they would do this if there wasn't anything in it for them.
I was so moved by the great debate over cutting trees that I printed out all of the posts. I am planning to put them on my wall and photocopy them for the ecology department at the university.
nachoman
"C++ is just too difficult for first-year CS students in high school" I don't fully understand the concept of a CS student in high school. But you have to admit that if you want to call yourself a CS student, then you will have to learn how to do some real programming. You can't lead students into a false hope that a CS job consists of simple Python scripting. Currently I am in 2nd year CS and know of many people who are in CS and really shouldn't be. They are there because jobs and because they got good marks doing basically nothing in programming courses in high school. I think that they realized this, but I don't think python is the answer. C and C++ should be taught early, even if they have to use simplified libraries to do things. If we are not careful, we will create a generation of Computer Science students that will (if they don't fail miserably when it gets hard) have the degree but not really have the skill nor desire for what they are doing