We're talking about a 13 year old here. Don't you think she wants to read books where the central characters are her own age (& preferably her own sex).
How about John Christopher (The White Mountains), Alexei Panshin (Rite of Passage), John Wyndham (Chocky, The Chrysalids).
I just loved the line halfway down the Mercury News article where it states:
"On Thursday, the state Department of Corporations said the law doesn't apply to Microsoft."
How apt!
_____________ "The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -- Anatole France
According to news reports (reliable as ever, of course) the world spent about 500 G$ fixing the "bug".
Back when the shortcut way of representing the year was introduced, memory cost a lot more, AND the dollar was worth a lot more. Many programmers realised they were creating a problem that would have to be fixed later. They decided that the cost of fixing it later would be less than the cost of doing it right then. At least for financial records, they were saving a lot of bytes in a time when every byte counted.
Were they right or wrong?
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BCPL, the language on which C was originally based, has an UNLESS statement.
It also has an UNTIL statement as well as WHILE, and many other zero-cost enhancements to provide a richer, more expressive syntax; all of which C dropped.
Anyone for Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar? Certainly an original geek if there was one. A short bio is here.
Or possible the great Hardy himself. I heard it said that all anecdotes about mathematicians are told about Hardy because mathematicians have such rotten memories, Hardy's is the only name they can remember.
It looks to me that what Intel is claiming here (processes starting at a time determined by the central computer, etc.) is *not* distributed computed a la SETI@home, but rather, the idea of an Internet worm that steals CPU time.
Didn't Robert Morris provide a demonstration of this in 1988 or so? I don't suppose he had a chance to patent his techniques before they copped him.
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Blake Morrison on why the attack on America has transfixed us all.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,55 1618,00.html
How about John Christopher (The White Mountains), Alexei Panshin (Rite of Passage), John Wyndham (Chocky, The Chrysalids).
"On Thursday, the state Department of Corporations said the law doesn't apply to Microsoft."
How apt!
_____________
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -- Anatole France
Back when the shortcut way of representing the year was introduced, memory cost a lot more, AND the dollar was worth a lot more. Many programmers realised they were creating a problem that would have to be fixed later. They decided that the cost of fixing it later would be less than the cost of doing it right then. At least for financial records, they were saving a lot of bytes in a time when every byte counted.
Were they right or wrong?
It also has an UNTIL statement as well as WHILE, and many other zero-cost enhancements to provide a richer, more expressive syntax; all of which C dropped.
Or possible the great Hardy himself. I heard it said that all anecdotes about mathematicians are told about Hardy because mathematicians have such rotten memories, Hardy's is the only name they can remember.
Ref: http://www.news unlimited.co.uk/Breaking_News/UK/0,2478,548090,00. html
(Thanks, greg.)
Perhaps Intel is being too modest - maybe they should just patent computing? (hey, that's a joke, not a troll)
Didn't Robert Morris provide a demonstration of this in 1988 or so? I don't suppose he had a chance to patent his techniques before they copped him.