The AB exam is Data Structures and Algorithms. This is elementary computer science and should be part of the repertoire of any CS student. Granted, the test was simple, but any programmer who cannot implement a tree and not say its efficiency is not a good programmer.
I took the AB exam last year and I can say that they had a question that required you to implement a very elementary modification of merge sort. I cannot see how this would be different in C++.
Note: I have taken and received a 5 on both the AB and A exams. I found both exams incredibly simple, but the A exam, although i was taking in sophomore year, was truly laughable. Honestly, if they remove the data structures and algorithms portion of the exams, I see no point in the exam any more. BTW, the "fish" study you were talking about is called MBCS (Marine Biology Case Study). It was replaced this year with a GridWorld project that is even simpler (and MBCS was easy...).
The reason is mainly that "Western Europe" is a truer description of that area now - the EU has created an interdependency among European nations (and their close physical relationship) that means that citizens of one European country are often aware of situations in the neighboring countries. The United States has two neighbors and, for the most part, the daily interactions do not affect the United States differently than any other day. Part of it is US introversion, but part of it is that we live on a different continent.
"What affects [sic?] me, is the severity of these bugs that need to be fixed.
That was the correct usage of "affect" - please refrain from being a grammar Nazi if you are unable to judge correct grammar.
To be fair, releasing GPL code is no more difficult than getting into ITT Tech. The difficult part is finding and writing something that people will use and want to use.
My ex-girlfriend is a finalist in the determination for the Stokes scholarship (we're still good friends) and the thing about the scholarship is that 1) You have to major in one of IIRC 3 fields, Math, EE, or CS and 2) you really are stuck with the NSA once you take their offer - if you decide to work for someone else after you graduate, you have to pay the NSA all of what was owed. It's a great opportunity, but some people may not want that - just be careful and read the fine print with that scholarship.;)
Erase the -B and put in P-R and you turn it into a WOMP-RAT. Plus, you only need to shrink it by a half now, since all the literature that I've heard says they're not much larger than 2 meters across. The downside is that you may lose a lot to some smart-ass kids who like to "bullseye em" in their T-16s.
I have been to Europe - the Italian roads are often subpar (sorry guys, you know its true), and to be honest, many of the British roads aren't very extensive and simply don't carry that much traffic. Those that do (highways and the like) are very near US quality - neither far better nor far worse. The German roads I've driven on are as good as US roads (as I expect), however they have a tiny system compared to the United States. France can vary in its road systems - I've seen the good in the areas around Paris and the bad in the rural areas in the south of France. The Swiss roads (those around Geneva anyway, can't speak to anywhere else, haven't been there) are excellent, but once again, they are dealing with a much smaller highway system. Most of the Swiss/Italian Alps seems to be of the same quality as Route 1 in California, if you've ever driven on it. You have me though, I have never visited Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, or any of the other European countries. Those that I previously named I have driven in, though. Of course, I've spent barely a cumulative couple of months in the UK, about the same in Italy, and less in the other countries, so a native's perspective is welcome. Let me tell you this though - while some Italian roads aren't great, that doesn't stop Italian drivers from speeding around the hairpin turns with 100 foot drops waiting for them;)
By the way, each of these countries also implements system with substantial regulation compared to the United States, which I believe would work well in the United States. The problem isn't that we have to much regulation here, it's that the FCC is trying to straddle the line between regulating the lines and simply letting them go - I feel a regulated data network would be beneficial in the long run. For those worried about privacy, the simple fact is that in this country, the federal gov't. can do as it likes anytime it wants and spreading our data between private companies really doesn't solve anything. If you want to keep your communications private, the best advice I can give is to encrypt everything, because if they want to track your lines badly enough, they will find a way.
To be fair, he might have been watching his network traffic (like i do) - if nothing out of the ordinary is being sent, chances are you aren't infected. That being said, I haven't run a non-UNIX based OS in 4 years.
A UNIX operating system with a stable GUI and support system is more than worth the increase in price. Oh, and its really nice to have a computer made out of actual aluminum - if i have to deal with another peace of crap HP made mostly out of plastic I'll go out of my mind. Honestly, thats simply not a long term investment.
Sorry to reply to myself - I quoted the wrong statistic. The National Highway System alone covers 256,000 kilometers, and that only accounts for 4% of the nations roads.
Actually, our country has the largest highway system in the world (by far) and it is widely regarded as a modern marvel of engineering. "There's already pointless speed limits when everyone wants to go much faster" is the stupidest argument I have ever heard and potholes happen - the fact that the US government successfully manages a transcontinental system of 45,400 km in length through some of the most varied terrain in the world speaks to its efficacy. If you want to argue about government monopolies, you should probably pick something less successful.
Some programs (read: vi) already incorporate this functionality regardless of the terminal application. I never really use that functionality aside from vi - I just open a new window or tab.
The parent's post is entirely sarcastic. Not being American, you might not know what our government is shouting at us, but these are common quotes by the Bush Administration. Your refutation is what the parent was hinting at.
No - two computers connected to a local ROUTER (level 3) is a local area network. Two computers connected to the internet with a hub/switch (level 2) is a WAN (wide area network). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osi_model
Of course, this all means nothing if you define a LAN as simply a geographically local network. I'm using a layer 2/layer 3 distinction (no routers = wan).
I'm afraid you're misinformed: the USS Enterprise is equipped with a single power generator - a deuterium matter-antimatter power plant. In addition, while the Enterprise does employ a variety of energy weapons, including a full bank of 12 phaser arrays, the primary purpose of the warp core is to provide the energy for warp-speed interstellar travel.
You're right about our public schools - for the most part they're horrible, but I'll note that our private universities are considered the greatest in the world, better than oxford and cambridge, even.
Just to note, Americans were not "twisting" the meaning of college when they used it for the original colleges - they used it exactly as they meant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College#The_origin_of_the_U.S._usage
Also, American English is closer to original Shakespearean usage:
In some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Some expressions that the British call "Americanisms" are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain (for example trash for rubbish, loan as a verb instead of lend, and fall for autumn; another example, frame-up, was re-imported into Britain through Hollywood gangster movies).
It's you guys that screwed up our beautiful language;)
As we already explained before - attempted murder is a special case. This is because of the nature of our criminal justice system - namely that each criminal offense has two sections: actus rea and mens rea. By shooting someone who she thought was alive, she fulfilled the mental part of the crime, mens rea. Now, because the law is defined as "attempted murder" it is literally punishing you for committing a possibly deadly act with the requisite mens rea. This is most unusual, as the actus rea in this case is largely dependent on the mens rea. In most other cases, they are separate - in copyright, for example. Copyright infringement is defined with a clear actus rea which the defendant in this case in no way fulfilled. Thus, unless I'm missing a technicality in the wording of the law, that would present this defendant as manifestly innocent.
Note: IANAL, I have only had a small amount of informal training.
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The AB exam is Data Structures and Algorithms. This is elementary computer science and should be part of the repertoire of any CS student. Granted, the test was simple, but any programmer who cannot implement a tree and not say its efficiency is not a good programmer.
I took the AB exam last year and I can say that they had a question that required you to implement a very elementary modification of merge sort. I cannot see how this would be different in C++.
Note: I have taken and received a 5 on both the AB and A exams. I found both exams incredibly simple, but the A exam, although i was taking in sophomore year, was truly laughable. Honestly, if they remove the data structures and algorithms portion of the exams, I see no point in the exam any more. BTW, the "fish" study you were talking about is called MBCS (Marine Biology Case Study). It was replaced this year with a GridWorld project that is even simpler (and MBCS was easy...).
The reason is mainly that "Western Europe" is a truer description of that area now - the EU has created an interdependency among European nations (and their close physical relationship) that means that citizens of one European country are often aware of situations in the neighboring countries. The United States has two neighbors and, for the most part, the daily interactions do not affect the United States differently than any other day. Part of it is US introversion, but part of it is that we live on a different continent.
"What affects [sic?] me, is the severity of these bugs that need to be fixed. That was the correct usage of "affect" - please refrain from being a grammar Nazi if you are unable to judge correct grammar.
To be fair, releasing GPL code is no more difficult than getting into ITT Tech. The difficult part is finding and writing something that people will use and want to use.
My ex-girlfriend is a finalist in the determination for the Stokes scholarship (we're still good friends) and the thing about the scholarship is that 1) You have to major in one of IIRC 3 fields, Math, EE, or CS and 2) you really are stuck with the NSA once you take their offer - if you decide to work for someone else after you graduate, you have to pay the NSA all of what was owed. It's a great opportunity, but some people may not want that - just be careful and read the fine print with that scholarship. ;)
If there isn't one correct answer, there is no answer.
Engineering/math/physics asks questions - art has no questions and no answers.
Erase the -B and put in P-R and you turn it into a WOMP-RAT. Plus, you only need to shrink it by a half now, since all the literature that I've heard says they're not much larger than 2 meters across. The downside is that you may lose a lot to some smart-ass kids who like to "bullseye em" in their T-16s.
I have been to Europe - the Italian roads are often subpar (sorry guys, you know its true), and to be honest, many of the British roads aren't very extensive and simply don't carry that much traffic. Those that do (highways and the like) are very near US quality - neither far better nor far worse. The German roads I've driven on are as good as US roads (as I expect), however they have a tiny system compared to the United States. France can vary in its road systems - I've seen the good in the areas around Paris and the bad in the rural areas in the south of France. The Swiss roads (those around Geneva anyway, can't speak to anywhere else, haven't been there) are excellent, but once again, they are dealing with a much smaller highway system. Most of the Swiss/Italian Alps seems to be of the same quality as Route 1 in California, if you've ever driven on it. You have me though, I have never visited Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, or any of the other European countries. Those that I previously named I have driven in, though. Of course, I've spent barely a cumulative couple of months in the UK, about the same in Italy, and less in the other countries, so a native's perspective is welcome. Let me tell you this though - while some Italian roads aren't great, that doesn't stop Italian drivers from speeding around the hairpin turns with 100 foot drops waiting for them ;)
By the way, each of these countries also implements system with substantial regulation compared to the United States, which I believe would work well in the United States. The problem isn't that we have to much regulation here, it's that the FCC is trying to straddle the line between regulating the lines and simply letting them go - I feel a regulated data network would be beneficial in the long run. For those worried about privacy, the simple fact is that in this country, the federal gov't. can do as it likes anytime it wants and spreading our data between private companies really doesn't solve anything. If you want to keep your communications private, the best advice I can give is to encrypt everything, because if they want to track your lines badly enough, they will find a way.
To be fair, he might have been watching his network traffic (like i do) - if nothing out of the ordinary is being sent, chances are you aren't infected. That being said, I haven't run a non-UNIX based OS in 4 years.
A UNIX operating system with a stable GUI and support system is more than worth the increase in price. Oh, and its really nice to have a computer made out of actual aluminum - if i have to deal with another peace of crap HP made mostly out of plastic I'll go out of my mind. Honestly, thats simply not a long term investment.
Sorry to reply to myself - I quoted the wrong statistic. The National Highway System alone covers 256,000 kilometers, and that only accounts for 4% of the nations roads.
Actually, our country has the largest highway system in the world (by far) and it is widely regarded as a modern marvel of engineering. "There's already pointless speed limits when everyone wants to go much faster" is the stupidest argument I have ever heard and potholes happen - the fact that the US government successfully manages a transcontinental system of 45,400 km in length through some of the most varied terrain in the world speaks to its efficacy. If you want to argue about government monopolies, you should probably pick something less successful.
Some programs (read: vi) already incorporate this functionality regardless of the terminal application. I never really use that functionality aside from vi - I just open a new window or tab.
The parent's post is entirely sarcastic. Not being American, you might not know what our government is shouting at us, but these are common quotes by the Bush Administration. Your refutation is what the parent was hinting at.
No - two computers connected to a local ROUTER (level 3) is a local area network. Two computers connected to the internet with a hub/switch (level 2) is a WAN (wide area network).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osi_model
Of course, this all means nothing if you define a LAN as simply a geographically local network. I'm using a layer 2/layer 3 distinction (no routers = wan).
I'm afraid you're misinformed: the USS Enterprise is equipped with a single power generator - a deuterium matter-antimatter power plant. In addition, while the Enterprise does employ a variety of energy weapons, including a full bank of 12 phaser arrays, the primary purpose of the warp core is to provide the energy for warp-speed interstellar travel.
You're right about our public schools - for the most part they're horrible, but I'll note that our private universities are considered the greatest in the world, better than oxford and cambridge, even.
Also, American English is closer to original Shakespearean usage:
In some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Some expressions that the British call "Americanisms" are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain (for example trash for rubbish, loan as a verb instead of lend, and fall for autumn; another example, frame-up, was re-imported into Britain through Hollywood gangster movies).
It's you guys that screwed up our beautiful language
As we already explained before - attempted murder is a special case. This is because of the nature of our criminal justice system - namely that each criminal offense has two sections: actus rea and mens rea. By shooting someone who she thought was alive, she fulfilled the mental part of the crime, mens rea. Now, because the law is defined as "attempted murder" it is literally punishing you for committing a possibly deadly act with the requisite mens rea. This is most unusual, as the actus rea in this case is largely dependent on the mens rea. In most other cases, they are separate - in copyright, for example. Copyright infringement is defined with a clear actus rea which the defendant in this case in no way fulfilled. Thus, unless I'm missing a technicality in the wording of the law, that would present this defendant as manifestly innocent.
Note: IANAL, I have only had a small amount of informal training.
More importantly, what's your private key?
Give him a break - he was probably reading bash ;)
I may have a simpler way: ... a_n = 1/2^(n-1)
:)
distance remaining (s) = 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16
lim_(n->infinity) 1/2^(n-1) = 0.
So, the object reaches its target
Come on guys, stop it - this is PUNishing.
Are you seriously arguing hacker vs. cracker semantics? Give it up, no one cares - the word has changed, as words often do.