face the possibility that they won't receive the funds anymore It's not so much that they won't receive the funds, as that the funds will be taken away from their citizens by the federal government and given to other states.
I'm just talking about beginning teachers here, and I do mostly blame the teachers unions and seniority rules for that.
Being able to buy a house in California in your early to mid 20s I don't really want to call you a liar here, but I just don't believe it. The teachers I know can't afford to live without a roommate for several years.
What use does SQL Server have with a filesystem? Wouldn't it use the filesystem the user already has on their HDD? You can force SQL Server to split things up a bit more, but by default, each database is kept within a single file, leaving SQL Server to worry about where everything goes in the file. It wouldn't be much of a leap to just take a complete volume.
The swing wings have got to be one of the more expensive of those aging systems. I'm disappointed to see the Tomcat go, but I hear the Hornets have something like a third the maintenance cost, and that's pretty hard to ignore.
Funny, I thought we already had freely-provided education. Hm, I guess we should throw MORE money at it, I'm *sure* that will solve everything. It would be an interesting experiment to see what happened if teachers didn't have to be destitute their first several years on the job.
I really find it hard to imagine that after over 30 years of work that string theory is wrong. I think the criticism is more about whether string theory is useful than whether it is wrong.
>I am slowly convinced, that any larger piece of C(++)-Code which handles strings, has in fact at least one Buffer overflow. Well in that case that would include all your high level language interpreters and compilers too and possibly the code they generate. After all , at some point someone has to code to the metal.
Or think of (real) Macintoshes (not those Intel thingies). Their whole firmware is written in Forth. In fact all firmware device drivers of Macs and IBM P-Series as well as Sun computers are written in Forth, it's the "Open Firmware" standard. I'm not saying you're wrong, but it seems odd that RISC systems would use Forth, since Forth is designed around the way older architectures worked (the stack). It could be made to work, but I wouldn't expect Forth to be the speed demon on PowerPC that it is on 68000 or x86.
In fact, the first Forth system was a computer designed to controll a telescope. The Forth programm directly accessed the hardware, probably via an internal layer of sub-routines. Forth is designed to have the lowest-level procedures written in assembler, so there wouldn't really be much of a separation there. I think -- my actual experience is in PostScript, and most of what I know of the differences between it and Forth is hearsay.
the Algol block. (=C, Pascal, C++, Java, VB...) VB certainly picked up some ideas from Algol (via Pascal, maybe?), but I think I'd call it FORTRAN-based, at heart.
They understand computers by metaphor and analog to the real world. In this case, though, metaphor should work just fine because the graphics model is based on a painting metaphor in the first place. How often do we hear about some famous old painting being X-rayed to see what the artist changed his mind about?
All you need to do is attempt to convince them that white text is still text, or that black text on a black background is still text. Either way, the text is still there.
This is a confusion over the way the Adobe Imaging Model works, not white-on-white or black-on-black. In Adobe's model, you start with a blank page, and you essentially paint on it; newly drawn things cover previously drawn things. Basically, despite what the previous commenter said, it really is like a Sharpie.
When you physically draw over something with a black marker, the previous text may be impossible to see, but it's still there. In the PDF, you'd only have to skip the instruction drawing the box to get the text out. Even if Acrobat didn't let you get at the text by cutting-and-pasting, someone familiar with the PDF format could still get to it with some work.
Improper usage as a result of ignorance shouldn't determine the meaning of a word or phrase. What else would determine it? It's not like there's some official language committee that votes on these things.
so the only good part of your architecture is the ability to scale... makes sense, I've never seen a single enterprise Java app that didn't *have* to scale horizontally. If that covers it, though, why complain?
15 years ago I benchmarked assembler vs c for graphics code - c was 200 x slower. Did you try a "compile via assembler" and see what the compiler was doing? There must have been something stupid happening.
Good, so you are in a very early stage of your development as a programmer. As you mature, you'll figure out how to get the job done without wasting all your time on C/C++ programming. He or she was talking about games. Does anyone really write games in anything but C or C++?
That you can keep track of and control exactly what's happening with your computer is a very good argument, but it's traditionally more of an open source argument than a free software argument. It might be what was meant, but I doubt it.
You trade off some functionality and eye candy for freedom. I usually use Windows. This does not make me any more or less free to get Linux or Windows source code than if I used Linux.
If I run a dry-cleaner can't I charge more for same-day service? Isn't reasonable that I might charge a frequent customer less, or I might charge more to clean your sequined tube-top? ~!@#$%^& analogies...
It's not their own customers that the telcos are talking about charging here.
Classes in PHP4 are horribly broken. They don't have destructors, for instance... What's PHP4's general solution to not having a destructor? Register_shutdown_function(). Neither.Net nor Java have destructors in any meaningful sense, either. That's a consequence of using background garbage collectors vs. reference counting or non-reference-based objects.
In the movies section, anyone that will choose a format specifically to watch HD movies now won't want to see them on a relatively small 20" or less monitor, they'll want the whole home theater thing and will want to see them as big as they can. That home theater setup is across the room, while the 19" monitor is 18" from my eyes. Also, the drives shouldn't really cost that much in a year or two.
most people I know are just now getting DVD drives for their computers I've had one since 1999, and I didn't get a DVD player for the TV until 2001.
I had a friend who was considering taking an offer from Ford as a mechanical engineer. Apparantly they require everyone they hire to spend a month working on the assembly lines so that no matter where they end up in the company they will have a sense of how things really get done on the ground.
I emailed *my* friend who's a mechanical (I think -- she does brakes) engineer at Ford, and she pretty much confirmed that. She also said she thought it was a good policy, because engineers otherwise tend not to think enough about what it will take to make the parts they design.
I've heard similar complaints from a different friend of mine who's a machinist for an auto supplier (in Detroit, everyone knows at least a couple people in the auto industry). He said you can really tell the difference between the work of designers who came straight in from college and those who went to school for it after working in the plants a few years.
The 'problem,' as I see it, is that the law demands exactingly precise use of language. The law demands precision not available from natural language. Laws should be written in symbolic logic, either math-style or philosophy-style.
You can get those for sinks, too, so you don't have to wait for all the cold water to flow through the pipes before you get hot water. They heat the water as it passes through, without a tank.
// Sort one item of laundry. if (garment.isRed) coldPile.add(garment); else if (garment.isWifesUnderwear || garment.isBra) delicatePile.add(garment); else if (garment.isSock || garment.isUnderwear) warmPile.add(garment); else if (garment.isSweater) delicatePile.add(garment); else if (garment.isDark) coldPile.add(garment); else warmPile.add(garment);
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face the possibility that they won't receive the funds anymore
It's not so much that they won't receive the funds, as that the funds will be taken away from their citizens by the federal government and given to other states.
I'm just talking about beginning teachers here, and I do mostly blame the teachers unions and seniority rules for that.
Being able to buy a house in California in your early to mid 20s
I don't really want to call you a liar here, but I just don't believe it. The teachers I know can't afford to live without a roommate for several years.
What use does SQL Server have with a filesystem? Wouldn't it use the filesystem the user already has on their HDD?
You can force SQL Server to split things up a bit more, but by default, each database is kept within a single file, leaving SQL Server to worry about where everything goes in the file. It wouldn't be much of a leap to just take a complete volume.
The swing wings have got to be one of the more expensive of those aging systems. I'm disappointed to see the Tomcat go, but I hear the Hornets have something like a third the maintenance cost, and that's pretty hard to ignore.
Funny, I thought we already had freely-provided education. Hm, I guess we should throw MORE money at it, I'm *sure* that will solve everything.
It would be an interesting experiment to see what happened if teachers didn't have to be destitute their first several years on the job.
I really find it hard to imagine that after over 30 years of work that string theory is wrong.
I think the criticism is more about whether string theory is useful than whether it is wrong.
>I am slowly convinced, that any larger piece of C(++)-Code which handles strings, has in fact at least one Buffer overflow.
Well in that case that would include all your high level language interpreters and
compilers too and possibly the code they generate. After all , at some point someone
has to code to the metal.
But not with null-terminated strings.
Or think of (real) Macintoshes (not those Intel thingies). Their whole firmware is written in Forth. In fact all firmware device drivers of Macs and IBM P-Series as well as Sun computers are written in Forth, it's the "Open Firmware" standard.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it seems odd that RISC systems would use Forth, since Forth is designed around the way older architectures worked (the stack). It could be made to work, but I wouldn't expect Forth to be the speed demon on PowerPC that it is on 68000 or x86.
In fact, the first Forth system was a computer designed to controll a telescope. The Forth programm directly accessed the hardware, probably via an internal layer of sub-routines.
Forth is designed to have the lowest-level procedures written in assembler, so there wouldn't really be much of a separation there. I think -- my actual experience is in PostScript, and most of what I know of the differences between it and Forth is hearsay.
the Algol block. (=C, Pascal, C++, Java, VB...)
VB certainly picked up some ideas from Algol (via Pascal, maybe?), but I think I'd call it FORTRAN-based, at heart.
They understand computers by metaphor and analog to the real world.
In this case, though, metaphor should work just fine because the graphics model is based on a painting metaphor in the first place. How often do we hear about some famous old painting being X-rayed to see what the artist changed his mind about?
All you need to do is attempt to convince them that white text is still text, or that black text on a black background is still text. Either way, the text is still there.
This is a confusion over the way the Adobe Imaging Model works, not white-on-white or black-on-black. In Adobe's model, you start with a blank page, and you essentially paint on it; newly drawn things cover previously drawn things. Basically, despite what the previous commenter said, it really is like a Sharpie.
When you physically draw over something with a black marker, the previous text may be impossible to see, but it's still there. In the PDF, you'd only have to skip the instruction drawing the box to get the text out. Even if Acrobat didn't let you get at the text by cutting-and-pasting, someone familiar with the PDF format could still get to it with some work.
Well, you are not going to build them on the moon.
Why not?
And I hate Bush as much as the next guy, but this idea was around long before he was.
Well, yes, but it was still damn funny without the context.
Improper usage as a result of ignorance shouldn't determine the meaning of a word or phrase.
What else would determine it? It's not like there's some official language committee that votes on these things.
so the only good part of your architecture is the ability to scale... makes sense, I've never seen a single enterprise Java app that didn't *have* to scale horizontally.
If that covers it, though, why complain?
15 years ago I benchmarked assembler vs c for graphics code - c was 200 x slower.
Did you try a "compile via assembler" and see what the compiler was doing? There must have been something stupid happening.
Good, so you are in a very early stage of your development as a programmer. As you mature, you'll figure out how to get the job done without wasting all your time on C/C++ programming.
He or she was talking about games. Does anyone really write games in anything but C or C++?
That you can keep track of and control exactly what's happening with your computer is a very good argument, but it's traditionally more of an open source argument than a free software argument. It might be what was meant, but I doubt it.
You trade off some functionality and eye candy for freedom.
I usually use Windows. This does not make me any more or less free to get Linux or Windows source code than if I used Linux.
If I run a dry-cleaner can't I charge more for same-day service? Isn't reasonable that I might charge a frequent customer less, or I might charge more to clean your sequined tube-top?
~!@#$%^& analogies...
It's not their own customers that the telcos are talking about charging here.
Classes in PHP4 are horribly broken. They don't have destructors, for instance... What's PHP4's general solution to not having a destructor? Register_shutdown_function(). .Net nor Java have destructors in any meaningful sense, either. That's a consequence of using background garbage collectors vs. reference counting or non-reference-based objects.
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In the movies section, anyone that will choose a format specifically to watch HD movies now won't want to see them on a relatively small 20" or less monitor, they'll want the whole home theater thing and will want to see them as big as they can.
That home theater setup is across the room, while the 19" monitor is 18" from my eyes. Also, the drives shouldn't really cost that much in a year or two.
most people I know are just now getting DVD drives for their computers
I've had one since 1999, and I didn't get a DVD player for the TV until 2001.
I had a friend who was considering taking an offer from Ford as a mechanical engineer. Apparantly they require everyone they hire to spend a month working on the assembly lines so that no matter where they end up in the company they will have a sense of how things really get done on the ground.
I emailed *my* friend who's a mechanical (I think -- she does brakes) engineer at Ford, and she pretty much confirmed that. She also said she thought it was a good policy, because engineers otherwise tend not to think enough about what it will take to make the parts they design.
I've heard similar complaints from a different friend of mine who's a machinist for an auto supplier (in Detroit, everyone knows at least a couple people in the auto industry). He said you can really tell the difference between the work of designers who came straight in from college and those who went to school for it after working in the plants a few years.
The 'problem,' as I see it, is that the law demands exactingly precise use of language.
The law demands precision not available from natural language. Laws should be written in symbolic logic, either math-style or philosophy-style.
You can get those for sinks, too, so you don't have to wait for all the cold water to flow through the pipes before you get hot water. They heat the water as it passes through, without a tank.
// Sort one item of laundry.
if (garment.isRed) coldPile.add(garment);
else if (garment.isWifesUnderwear || garment.isBra) delicatePile.add(garment);
else if (garment.isSock || garment.isUnderwear) warmPile.add(garment);
else if (garment.isSweater) delicatePile.add(garment);
else if (garment.isDark) coldPile.add(garment);
else warmPile.add(garment);