Any/all companies that write or edit code should have documents like this. Then again I also think all code should be peer reviewed and tested before it's considered stable for use. But then again I'm an idealist and know the world works exactly the opposite way.
"10MB of available disk space required for installation" (from http://www.apple.com/cinematools/specs.html)
So $1K AMR for a 10Mb piece of software. They could at least put in a few DVD's of Job's famous "never been done before" speaches and maybe one of his turtleneck shirts or something. And I thought Adobe was nuts for charging $1+ for photoshop and a per page fee for a usable version of Acrobat.
Sure the size of the program has nothing to do with it's value though when you spend a bucket of cash you feel ripped off when you are returned with just a sandwich bag of product.
If you look at that snippet of Ruby code there you can see that there is a field for a Key of some sort. I'm assuming google will sell you this service and provide you with a key in which you would use it. I know absolutely nothing about ruby (other than it's name) though this is the first thing that came to mind when I saw that code.
I disagree the G4 cube died out because it was a good product and absurdly expensive.
The only reason I don't have a G4 notebook is due to the $4000 (CAN) price tag. I can get a PIII laptop for a lot less but I won't because almost all of the intel based laptops are an eyesore.
I'm no compooter scientician but these questions are not very difficult. The difficulty is getting all the programs written in the small amount of time (which is why I'll probably never enter such a content). I wonder if perl is allowed (would make a bunch of the brute force i/o and calculations brain dead rote work).
As for the questions themselves just taking the first question as an example:
You need a function to calculate the volume of a sphere and another for the volume of a cube. Another function to increase the integral values by 1 until the value is equal to that of another point set of the other possible balloons or the box itself. (Knapsack problem if I'm not mistaken).
Then sum up the volumes of the balloons and subtract the volume of the cubes to get the answer to be output.
My tactic for doing these types of problems is black out all the superflous words and phrases and leave only the words which describe the problem (less distracting). Write down (with a pen) a strategy to solve the problem and do at least one sample case by hand to make sure the design is correct. Then code it out in C (because if you do it in any other language you are just being lazy hehhehehehe).
Basically these are all questions any third year computer science student can do on their own (or at least I hope so) but it would be fun doing this kind of thing as a team.
This is just more reason to live a life of less consumption. Why would anyone trust things they care about to shipping companies? Ship small things and your fine. Ship big things and you are asking for trouble. But then again I'm just a backwards Canadian.
I have a MD player and dumped it as soon as I got my Rio Volt. The reason being is that MD was realtime encoding and required a optical cable to do decend recording of mp3's and not.
I would easily go back it were not as much of a PITA to use.
Setup a local dns cache (I prefer tinydns as it's not bind and fast). Then just add each of the add hosts an entry for localhost. Done.
Yup this sure is slashdot.
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Well since people that like to post on/. just prefer to slag everything I'm going to post something different.
I really liked this movie even with this shoddy ending. Like every other movie if you go in expecting nothing and looking for nothing you will be entertained. I know for sure I was. This is one movie where I'm not jilted at the absurd ticket price.
I especially enjoyed the "I'm afraid it will hurt" scene. The "client" was all to human for once and Gigalo Joe was well, plastic. A very convincing scene that is one of those "disturbing" elements other are talking about.
Although the ending wasn't that great and was more about showing off what can be done in modern renderers, it had a point (if not well stated). If we are remembered by what we leave behind who or what will think of us when we've left this place a rotting ball of dirt where there obviously at one time was beauty.
Blah. For anyone needing to waste a few hours or are just board then go see this movie. It should tide you over until Final Fantasy is released on the 11th.
Amazingly I learned my "Professional Practice" (aka Ethics in Computer Science) the NSA (or some other US military orginization with too much money) did a study to see how many times a hard drive needs to be overwritten before the data is completely unretrieveable. They came up with the magic number of 7.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/wd0a bs=128
Do that 10 times and you should be cool. This came about as my professor actually does this every time he needs to have his machine serviced.
(10 as who the hell believes americans anyways?)
I've personally had GNOME 1.2 running in OpenBSD.
Sure it required a lot of work but I did it. Then again most morons don't wish to think for themselves. The only thing I wish OpenBSD had was better video/sound hardware support and SMP support. Since I run an SMP machine at work I'm stuck with FreeBSD.
Hell then why not just make your scripting language similar to LISP or APL or just to be annoying use FP (meaning Functional Programming and not first-post)....
Hell I would learn APL again if it mean scripting a game of some sort!
This is gonna save me a few hundred dollars! I've been trying to get a copy of all 36 issues of the Dark Horse version of Akira but have only since aquired 6.:(
So what if I'm at work I'm still gonna do a happy dance!
If it wasn't for Akira I would never have seen Evangelion. If it wasn't for Evangelion my life would be of no value!
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There are always open and varried opportunities in the ever strong field of technical support!
This page http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=style &apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch= i386&format=html is a good start.
Any/all companies that write or edit code should have documents like this. Then again I also think all code should be peer reviewed and tested before it's considered stable for use. But then again I'm an idealist and know the world works exactly the opposite way.
"10MB of available disk space required for installation"
(from http://www.apple.com/cinematools/specs.html)
So $1K AMR for a 10Mb piece of software. They could at least put in a few DVD's of Job's famous "never been done before" speaches and
maybe one of his turtleneck shirts or something. And I thought Adobe was nuts for charging $1+ for photoshop and a per page fee for a usable version of Acrobat.
Sure the size of the program has nothing to do with it's value though when you spend a bucket of cash you feel ripped off when you are returned with just a sandwich bag of product.
If you look at that snippet of Ruby code there you can see that there is a field for a Key of some sort. I'm assuming google will sell you this service and provide you with a key in which you would use it. I know absolutely nothing about ruby (other than it's name) though this is the first thing that came to mind when I saw that code.
I disagree the G4 cube died out because it was a good product and absurdly expensive.
The only reason I don't have a G4 notebook is due to the $4000 (CAN) price tag. I can get a PIII laptop for a lot less but I won't because almost all of the intel based laptops are an eyesore.
I've done them before.
In high school we used to get similar problem sets every month and would hand them in for bonus marks as they were optional.
Too bad my university doesn't do the same for the various theory courses we have.
Good point! I agree with you completely.
Looking at it again I must add that the 'code solving' problem is actually harder than it looks.
Time is your enemy.
Oh come now they are not that hard.
I'm no compooter scientician but these questions are not very difficult. The difficulty is getting all the programs written in the small amount of time (which is why I'll probably never enter such a content). I wonder if perl is allowed (would make a bunch of the brute force i/o and calculations brain dead rote work).
As for the questions themselves just taking the first question as an example:
You need a function to calculate the volume of a sphere and another for the volume of a cube.
Another function to increase the integral values by 1 until the value is equal to that of another point set of the other possible balloons or the box itself. (Knapsack problem if I'm not mistaken).
Then sum up the volumes of the balloons and subtract the volume of the cubes to get the answer to be output.
My tactic for doing these types of problems is black out all the superflous words and phrases and leave only the words which describe the problem (less distracting). Write down (with a pen) a strategy to solve the problem and do at
least one sample case by hand to make sure the
design is correct. Then code it out in C (because if you do it in any other language you are just being lazy hehhehehehe).
Basically these are all questions any third year computer science student can do on their own (or at least I hope so) but it would be fun doing this kind of thing as a team.
I haven't seen that before.
Good for at least one laugh.
This is just more reason to live a life of less consumption. Why would anyone trust things they care about to shipping companies? Ship small things and your fine. Ship big things and you are asking for trouble. But then again I'm just a backwards Canadian.
I have a MD player and dumped it as soon as I got my Rio Volt. The reason being is that MD was realtime encoding and required a optical cable to do decend recording of mp3's and not. I would easily go back it were not as much of a PITA to use.
Setup a local dns cache (I prefer tinydns as it's not bind and fast). Then just add each of the add hosts an entry for localhost. Done.
Well since people that like to post on /. just prefer to slag everything I'm going to post something different.
I really liked this movie even with this shoddy ending. Like every other movie if you go in expecting nothing and looking for nothing you will be entertained. I know for sure I was. This is one movie where I'm not jilted at the absurd ticket price.
I especially enjoyed the "I'm afraid it will hurt" scene. The "client" was all to human for once and Gigalo Joe was well, plastic. A very convincing scene that is one of those "disturbing" elements other are talking about.
Although the ending wasn't that great and was more about showing off what can be done in modern renderers, it had a point (if not well stated). If we are remembered by what we leave behind who or what will think of us when we've left this place a rotting ball of dirt where there obviously at one time was beauty.
Blah. For anyone needing to waste a few hours or are just board then go see this movie. It should tide you over until Final Fantasy is released on the 11th.
OpenBSD for me.
Amazingly I learned my "Professional Practice" (aka Ethics in Computer Science) the NSA (or some other US military orginization with too much money) did a study to see how many times a hard drive needs to be overwritten before the data is completely unretrieveable. They came up with the magic number of 7.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/wd0a bs=128
Do that 10 times and you should be cool. This came about as my professor actually does this every time he needs to have his machine serviced.
(10 as who the hell believes americans anyways?)
I've personally had GNOME 1.2 running in OpenBSD.
Sure it required a lot of work but I did it. Then again most morons don't wish to think for themselves. The only thing I wish OpenBSD had was better video/sound hardware support and SMP support. Since I run an SMP machine at work I'm stuck with FreeBSD.
BTW LINUX IS FOR CHILDREN!
Hell then why not just make your scripting language similar to LISP or APL or just to be annoying use FP (meaning Functional Programming and not first-post)....
Hell I would learn APL again if it mean scripting a game of some sort!
Welcome to the real world...
This happens everyday in almost every industry.
KICK ASS!!!
This is gonna save me a few hundred dollars! I've been trying to get a copy of all 36 issues of the Dark Horse version of Akira but have only since aquired 6. :(
So what if I'm at work I'm still gonna do a happy dance!
If it wasn't for Akira I would never have seen Evangelion. If it wasn't for Evangelion my life would be of no value!
If this is not a war cry story I don't know what is!
I guess I should put my 2 cents in...
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BSD
Nuff Said
1) Why can't one do a network install of "debian". (Most distro's allow for inet installations) I'm not an ISO collector. :P
2) Why do I have to download ISO's just to install the OS? Who the hell needs every package under the sun when just base (ala OpenBSD) will do.
Linux has the hardware support that OpenBSD doesn't otherwise I wouldn't be asking.That damned dentist just won't quit... First the crypt now VA Finux!