"I found a new species!"
"Oh? What is it?"
"It's a slightly-longer-tailed monkey."
"Are you sure you didn't just pull on it to make it longer?"
"Nope. Where's my paycheck?"
As a "gifted" teenager, I don't find Heavy Metal comforting in any way.
But I DO enjoy listening to _good_ music. Mostly music that people my age haven't heard about, at least not in America. Today I enjoyed listening to Supertramp and The Pretenders. Maybe tomorrow I'll try some Pink Floyd and Metric, or Carlos Santana, or The Gift.
On a side-note/slightly off-topic, all of my American music comes from CDs, from which I ripped the music. If I did pirate music from other countries, would the RIAA be able to sue me? (Oh, and I'm not an American citizen, for the record, just another hopeful immigrant)
If I do (or don't do) something for someone else, benefiting that other person, then I have done some good. I do not do good for love (or fear) of a god or any god-like entity, I do it because I am moral.
I'll agree that what certain religions consider good or bad is somewhat debatable, but at the very least, they give immoral people some sense of duty (towards their god/gods/goddesses).
But my point here is that morality and religion are disjoint concepts: even though religion may instill some morality, one can be completely moral and completely atheist.
People with a computer science background should know the importance of having a common language to speak, or speaking in the simplest terms. If someone throws acronyms at you, they likely don't know what they are talking about. All field, psychology, history, and cs are related. They should use common terms, or so Wilson would have you believe.
Or, "I'm unable to hire enough cheap foreign employees to release a revised operating system in less than 7 years."
On the other hand, I'm foreign. And I'd like a job in the future. So I've got mixed feelings.
As a foreigner (a Portuguese) being educated in CS here, and interested in immigrating here altogether (in my mind I have already immigrated, but that's not what the papers say), I feel that the immigration policy is what's holding me back the most. I'm 15 years old (16 in a week), foreign, a High-School sophomore and dual-enrolled in college. I could finish my high-school and graduate from college in the same year (or in consecutive years), if my visa allows me to stay here that long (I don't have a student visa, I have a J2, because I'm a minor). Then what? Do I work in one place long enough to get permanent residency? Continue on a student visa to get a master's degree? I dislike my prospects.
Last week there was a man who came to talk to us in Career Success. He was a mechanical engineer. He told us that, due to the very low amount of high-schoolers who decide to go into a science or math degree, more immigrants are being educated in the U.S. in those subjects, or work in the U.S. in those subjects, but because of the immigration policy most of them go back to wherever they came from after they've learned the techniques. He told us that, because of this, the U.S. was going to sop being a world power in the future, unless they fixed the problem.
My CS professor also tells us frequently how there are far too few people graduating in CS, and how companies country-wide are looking for developers, because there are simply not enough of them being educated.
Anyway, I hope that the immigration policy does get revised. Sure would make my life easier. And the U.S's, it seems.
Nah, Portuguese. America's not exactly very popular in Europe, but I live in America right now and it's really not that bad. I just don't want another war.
Btw, sorry if my comment offended you. Apparently it did. Sorry.
It is definitely very different from cilk. And I have looked into a fair amount of different programming languages.
cilk looks a lot like C -- in fact, it is basically an extionsion of C.
Que looks a bit like FORTH. It is not an extension, nor is it programmed anything like FORTH.
cilk has explicit parallelism.
Que has implicit parallelism.
Here's a snippet of Que code (from inside a "word" that duplicates three items on the queue):
( a b c -- a b c a b c )
dup dup dup
pass swap swap pass
pass pass swap pass pass
PS: I believe I have studied [much] more than a dozen programming languages. That's more than most people I know (although admittedly I do not know that many people in CS). Most languages are similar to other languages, with a few exceptions (FORTH, Lisp, almost every esoteric programming language). Que is different from all of those programming languages.
Thank you for answering me. I was not aware of that project, but I will look into it to see what I can gleam from it.
And yes, I have only just started.
Actually, I've been working on a programming language/model that makes programs inherently parallel. Of course, it is quite different from anything currently in existence. Basically, it uses a queue (hence the name "Que") to store data (like the stack in FORTH), but due to the nature of the queue, programs become inherently parallel. Large programs could have hundreds of processes running at the same time, if so inclined.
If you are interested, check out my project (there's not much there right now), and/or contact me at FMota91 at GMail dot com.
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I mean, that IS their goal, isn't it? They can't honestly believe that suing people will get them more sales. How 'bout a paradigm shift?
On a side-note, it means that we need better music (I sure do). How 'bout a paradigm shift?
"I found a new species!" "Oh? What is it?" "It's a slightly-longer-tailed monkey." "Are you sure you didn't just pull on it to make it longer?" "Nope. Where's my paycheck?"
As a "gifted" teenager, I don't find Heavy Metal comforting in any way.
But I DO enjoy listening to _good_ music. Mostly music that people my age haven't heard about, at least not in America. Today I enjoyed listening to Supertramp and The Pretenders. Maybe tomorrow I'll try some Pink Floyd and Metric, or Carlos Santana, or The Gift.
On a side-note/slightly off-topic, all of my American music comes from CDs, from which I ripped the music. If I did pirate music from other countries, would the RIAA be able to sue me? (Oh, and I'm not an American citizen, for the record, just another hopeful immigrant)
I am moral, but not religious.
If I do (or don't do) something for someone else, benefiting that other person, then I have done some good. I do not do good for love (or fear) of a god or any god-like entity, I do it because I am moral.
I'll agree that what certain religions consider good or bad is somewhat debatable, but at the very least, they give immoral people some sense of duty (towards their god/gods/goddesses).
But my point here is that morality and religion are disjoint concepts: even though religion may instill some morality, one can be completely moral and completely atheist.
Company fires Employee! ...
etc
Or, "I'm unable to hire enough cheap foreign employees to release a revised operating system in less than 7 years." On the other hand, I'm foreign. And I'd like a job in the future. So I've got mixed feelings.
Flouride in water supplies is benegicial. The others aren't.
Fluorine can be displaced by Chlorine, which is poisonous.
Also, Sodium reacts violently in water, so think twice before adding salt to your steak... you insensitive clod.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
As a foreigner (a Portuguese) being educated in CS here, and interested in immigrating here altogether (in my mind I have already immigrated, but that's not what the papers say), I feel that the immigration policy is what's holding me back the most. I'm 15 years old (16 in a week), foreign, a High-School sophomore and dual-enrolled in college. I could finish my high-school and graduate from college in the same year (or in consecutive years), if my visa allows me to stay here that long (I don't have a student visa, I have a J2, because I'm a minor). Then what? Do I work in one place long enough to get permanent residency? Continue on a student visa to get a master's degree? I dislike my prospects. Last week there was a man who came to talk to us in Career Success. He was a mechanical engineer. He told us that, due to the very low amount of high-schoolers who decide to go into a science or math degree, more immigrants are being educated in the U.S. in those subjects, or work in the U.S. in those subjects, but because of the immigration policy most of them go back to wherever they came from after they've learned the techniques. He told us that, because of this, the U.S. was going to sop being a world power in the future, unless they fixed the problem. My CS professor also tells us frequently how there are far too few people graduating in CS, and how companies country-wide are looking for developers, because there are simply not enough of them being educated. Anyway, I hope that the immigration policy does get revised. Sure would make my life easier. And the U.S's, it seems.
So there is no relation between the "off-the-top-of-my-head" figure of 4GB RAM and the fact that dwords hold 32bits...
Isn't Vista 64bit-able? Why stop at 4GB?
1) Melt Tropical Glaciers.
2) ???
3) Profit!
Nah, Portuguese. America's not exactly very popular in Europe, but I live in America right now and it's really not that bad. I just don't want another war.
Btw, sorry if my comment offended you. Apparently it did. Sorry.
Is it really worth starting another war? It's not like you've won many of them so far...
Does this mean we don't need our pirate supporting overlord anymore?
Actually, I typed the address wrong. It's http://sourceforge.net/projects/que
It is definitely very different from cilk. And I have looked into a fair amount of different programming languages.
cilk looks a lot like C -- in fact, it is basically an extionsion of C.
Que looks a bit like FORTH. It is not an extension, nor is it programmed anything like FORTH.
cilk has explicit parallelism.
Que has implicit parallelism.
Here's a snippet of Que code (from inside a "word" that duplicates three items on the queue):
( a b c -- a b c a b c )dup dup dup
pass swap swap pass
pass pass swap pass pass
PS: I believe I have studied [much] more than a dozen programming languages. That's more than most people I know (although admittedly I do not know that many people in CS). Most languages are similar to other languages, with a few exceptions (FORTH, Lisp, almost every esoteric programming language). Que is different from all of those programming languages.
Thank you for answering me. I was not aware of that project, but I will look into it to see what I can gleam from it. And yes, I have only just started.
Actually, I've been working on a programming language/model that makes programs inherently parallel. Of course, it is quite different from anything currently in existence. Basically, it uses a queue (hence the name "Que") to store data (like the stack in FORTH), but due to the nature of the queue, programs become inherently parallel. Large programs could have hundreds of processes running at the same time, if so inclined.
If you are interested, check out my project (there's not much there right now), and/or contact me at FMota91 at GMail dot com.
...once they enter the vacuum cleaner business.
But that doesn't stop it from still being sold out. An there are more english speaking people than spanish speaking people in the world.
There's a free software movement. Why isn't there a free music movement?